Authenticité was the name given to the Chadian president François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye`s attempt to remove foreign influence and promote southern Chadian culture throughout Chad during the 1970s. One of its most unpopular requirements was that civil servants underwent the yondo initiation rites common only amongst Tombalbaye`s own subgroup of S.....
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[Zaire] Authenticité, sometimes Zairianization in English, was an official state ideology of the Mobutu regime that originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in what was first the Republic of Congo-Léopoldville, later renamed Zaire. The authenticity campaign was an effort to rid the country of the lingering vestiges of colonialism and ...
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French for 'authenticity'. Era-shaping policy decreed by Mobutu in early 70s Zaire to discourage European and colonial-era identity and to encourage indigenous sources in names, dress, and culture. Franco played key role in spreading the word about authenticite to the masses.
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