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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Author · Democratic Republic of the Congo

Thomas Kanza

Died in 2004

Thomas Kanza was born on 10 October 1933 in Léopoldville. The first Congolese to pursue university studies outside theology, he studied economics at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1952 to 1956, then spent a year at Harvard. The first ambassador of the Congo to the United Nations from 1960 to 1962, then delegate to the United Kingdom, he afterwards lived in Europe and the United States, and died in London on 25 October 2004, then ambassador to Sweden.

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