Moïse Katumbi Chapwe

Moïse Katumbi Chapwe (born 28 December 1964) is a Congolese businessman and politician. He is the governor of the Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[1] He was the first elected governor of the province and he voted for the first time (at age 42) during that election.

Katumbi is the younger brother of Raphael Katebe Katoto, also a Congolese businessman, now living in Belgium.

In the year he became governor, Katumbi began discussions to resolve the Kalukundi Mine ownership dispute of Africo Resources, Ltd., a Canadian mining company with a significant presence in the Katanga province.^[2][3]

Early life

Born to a Jewish father, Nissim Soriano, one of the many Sephardic Jews who emigrated to the Congo from the Greek Rhodes Island (then under Italian rule) and a Congolese women, young Moise had to change his last name to that of his great grandfather on his mother’s side during the reign of Congo’s dictator Mobutu. Governor Moïse Katumbi has often been affectionately dubbed by his admirers as Africa’s Obama. He was a self made man who made his first profit of $40 at the age of 13 by selling fish.^[4]

References

1. ^ Provinces of Congo (Kinshasa)
2. ^ Industry News Articles - BusinessWeek:
3. ^ Africo Resources' page on their Kalukundi project
4. ^ Moise-Katumbi-Chapwe.co.tv

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Name	Katumbi Chapwe, Moise
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Date of birth	December 28, 1964
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