Talk:Joseph Kabila

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Contents 1 Formatting, language, and POV 2 Hewa Bora II 3 POV-POV-POV!!! 4 Check it out ! 5 Current Event Tag 6 Hyppolite Kanambe

[edit] Formatting, language, and POV

What's with the end of the article? It's awful! I want to delete it, but I don't want to step on someone's toes. The formatting is screwy, english is broken, and POV is questionable. I think I might just delete it. Revert if you feel strongly about it.

Wezelboy (talk) 21:23, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Haha- someone beat me to it.

Wezelboy (talk) 21:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hewa Bora II

Your entry of Joseph Kabila’s early, it is stated that he was “born in the rebel stronghold of his father, then rebel leader Laurent Desire Kabila, in Hewa Bora II”. Then in the section “Guerrilla and early years, it says that “In order to integrate his stepfather's rebel forces, Joseph Kabila followed a military curriculum”.

Shall I first point to you that there has never been an administrative territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo called Hewa Bora II. The first time this territory was ever mentioned in the existence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was when Joseph Desire Kabila was questioned about his Congolese origin which highly contested in the D.R. Congo. There has also never been any body in the D.R. Congo who has ever claimed to be from or born from this part of the country.

It is also interesting that there is no mention of the contested nationality of Joseph Kabila in your entry.

Under Higher Education: it only says Washington International University. Could you inform your readers that this university is a non-traditional, distance learning university, with no classroom attendance required?

Many thanks,

Germain M.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.189.242.125 (talk • contribs) on 18 June 2006

[edit] POV-POV-POV!!!

I'm not Congolese nor have any sort of relation or vested interest with RDC, I was just looking for some complementary info on this character and I found that the Wikipedia article is written in an absolutely POV style in what seems a sort of politically motivated vandalism. The current text seems to state as facts things that, while they could be even true, are not commonly accepted as such (ref. [1], any of the other Wikipedia articles on RDC and the Kabila family). I don't feel able to fix this, so I have reported to the administrators. --Sugaar 15:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Agreed this is a really terrible biased article. And it still needs serious repair.

[edit] Check it out !

The intoduction of this article is one of the worst ones on Wikipedia. Citations are also needed to support facts such as the involvement of Joseph Kabila in the assasination of his father Laurent Desiree Kabila. This article needs some serious revisions. To not forget, this African leader has always been internationally and officially known as Joseph Kabila. Where is the whole Hypolite Kanamba name coming from? This bad article is really an insult.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.119.62.37 (talk • contribs) 14 July 2006

Someone introduced unsubstantiated claims into the article. These have been reverted. --Ezeu 22:29, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current Event Tag

Who tagged the article and why? What current event is happening in relation to Kabila that warrants it? Nightscream 15:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hyppolite Kanambe

Apparently there is a minor story making its rounds that Kabila is the illegitimate son of someone or other and his actual name is Kanambe. (I count 750 Google hits for the name right now vs 771,000 for "Joseph Kabila".) This might merit mention if a coherent explanation can be mustered, but simply adding "Hyppolite Kanambe" as another name for Joseph Kabila is not acceptable. - BanyanTree 20:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)