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Republic of the Congo

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Guy Menga

Guy Menga, whose real name was Gaston Guy Bikouta Menga, was born in 1935 in Mankonongo, in the Pool, on the banks of the Loufoulakari, and studied in Brazzaville. A schoolteacher from 1957, he became in 1959 the first Congolese head of a school in Poto-Poto, then left in 1961 to train in France as a radio presenter. Back in 1962 at Congolese radio and television, he took over its general management. Removed from the public service in 1972, he stayed in France and worked for Radio France internationale, where he headed the African section, then was a minister in André Milongo's transitional government in 1991.

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