Yvon Kimpiobi

Yvon Kimpiobi
President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In office
6 March 1962 – November 1962
Preceded by Joseph Kasongo
Succeeded by Bertin Mwamba
In office
September 1965 – June 1967
Preceded by Joseph Midiburo
Succeeded by position disestablished
Personal details
Born 1 June 1923
Kikongo-Mitshakila, Kwango, Belgian Congo
Political party Parti Solidaire Africain
Convention Nationale Congolaise
Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution (1968–?)

Yvon Kimpiobi or Kimpiob-Ninafiding Nki-Ekundi (born 1 June 1923) is a Congolese politician who served twice as the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Biography

Early life

Yvon Kimpiobi was born on 1 June 1923 in Kikongo-Mitshakila (near Bulungu, Bandundu[1]), Kwango, Belgian Congo to Dias Suing Mabong Ngul Mun and Nkubiya Nazur of the Mbel clan of the Yansi tribe. He undertook six years of primary studies and six years of commercial and administrative studies in Leverville before entering the workforce. In 1943 he became an accounting clerk at Huileries et Plantations du Kwango in Fumu-Mputu, Masi-Manimba Territory. Six years later he was hired by Almeida Frères in Kikwit. Kimpiobi served there until 1952 when he became a clerk in the colonial administration attached to the secretariat of Kwango Province (reformed as Kwilu in 1954). He also married and had a total of 20 children.[2]

Political career

In the 1957 municipal elections Kimpiobi won the office of Chef de Centre extra-coutumier de Kikwit. Two years later he formed part of a Kwilu delegation of customary chiefs that met with the Belgian minister of colonies to discuss the Léopoldville riots.[2]

In the Congo's first national elections in 1960 Kimpiobi was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a representative from Kwilu Province and a member of the Parti Solidaire Africain (PSA) with 6,281 preferential votes.[3][4] When the PSA split he aligned himself with Cléophas Kamitatu's moderate wing of the party.[5] He first served as President of the Chamber from 6 March 1962[6] until November 1962.[2] In September of that year he led a small parliamentary delegation on a good-will trip to the Republic of China.[7] In 1965 he was reelected to the Chamber as a member of the new Convention Nationale Congolaise.[4] He again served as President of the Chamber from that September until June 1967.[2] That year the Chamber was dissolved, ending Kimpiobi's tenure as a national deputy. In June 1968 he was made a member of the political bureau of the Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution (MPR).[8] In December 1970 the bureau was reorganised and he was dismissed from his position.[9]

In 1997 Laurent-Désiré Kabila seized control of the Congo. Afterwards he created a commission to draft a new constitution for the country. Kimpiobi was appointed to the commission.[10]

Citations

References

  • Artigue, Pierre (1961). Qui sont les leaders congolais? (in French). 3. Éditions Europe-Afrique.
  • China Yearbook : 1962–1963. Chinese Ministry of Information. 1962.
  • "Kimpiob Yvon" (in French). Assemblée nationale. 27 July 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  • Maspero, F. (1971). Cahiers libres, (in French). Éditions des Cahiers libres.
  • Ministère des Affaires étrangères (2010). Documents diplomatiques français (in French). 2. P.I.E.-Peter Lang. ISBN 9789052015576.
  • Mpisi, Jean (2007). Antoine Gizenga: le combat de l'héritier de P. Lumumba. Harmattan. ISBN 9782296049147.
  • Mulumba, Mabi; Makombo, Mutamba (1986). Cadres et dirigeants au Zaïre, qui sont-ils?: dictionnaire biographique (in French). Editions du Centre de recherches pédagogiques.
  • "Remaniement et rajeunissement du Bureau politique du MPR". Le Progres (in French) (348). Kinshasa. 18 December 1970. pp. 1, 7.
  • Willame, Jean-Claude (1999). L'Odyssée Kabila (in French). KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 9782865379262.
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