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Marien Ngouabi

Marien Ngouabi
Political and party leadership Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Brazzaville 1938–1977 ✕ Assassinated

Founding of the Congolese people’s republic

At his January 1970 swearing-in, Ngouabi vowed "fidelity to the Congolese people, to the revolution, and the Congolese Labour Party."

A military and political leader of Congo-Brazzaville. He led the establishment of the Congolese Labour Party and people’s republic in 1969, organizing Marxist-Leninist one-party institutions. His assassination in 1977 was followed by military-party succession struggles.

Career timeline
  • 1968Led the coup grouping as head of the National Revolutionary Council (CNR)
  • 1968–1977President of the Congo
  • 1969Founded the Congolese Labour Party (PCT)
  • 1969Renamed the country the People's Republic of the Congo, Africa's first Marxist-Leninist state
  • 1974Re-elected chairman of the PCT Central Committee