Kimbembe Mazunga
Kimbembe Mazunga( born December 11, 1956, in Kinshasa) is a civil engineer in mechanics, and has been working at" Office des routes" since 1986; he was the governor of the city- province of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, from November 15, 2005 to October 16, 2006.
Originally from the province of Bas- Congo, he is a member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Development( PPRD), the party of the DRC's current president, Joseph Kabila.
He previously served as Minister of Public Works, National Planning, Urbanism and Habitat during the Transitional Government under Joseph Kabila from November 2002 to July 2003 and was hired as senior advisor to the Chief of State in charge of Infrastructures in March 2005.
In November 2005, he was selected by Kabila's son to replace Jean Kimbunda Mudikela as governor of Kinshasa.
Tabu Ley Rochereau, a famous internationally known singer was one of his three Vice- Governors, he was in charge of political, administrative, and socio -cultural questions.
In October 2006, Kimbembe Mazunga was replaced by Admiral Baudoin Liwanga while he was called back at the Presidency to serve, once again, as senior advisor to the President in charge of infrastructures and national planning.
He is assuming these functions till now.
Nico Kasanda
Nicolas Kasanda wa Mikalay
( 7 July 1939 – 22 September 1985), popularly known as Docteur Nico, was a guitarist, composer and one of the pioneers of Congolese music.
He was born in Mikalayi in the Belgian Congo.
He graduated in 1957 as a technical teacher, but inspired by his musical family, he took up the guitar and in time became a virtuoso soloist.
At the age of 14, Kasanda started playing with the seminal group Grand Kalle et l'African Jazz, led by Joseph" Grand Kalle" Kabaselle.
He became an influential guitarist( Jimi Hendrix visited him while on tour in Paris), and the originator of the ubiquitous Congolese finger- picked guitar style, acquiring the nickname" Dr. Nico".
African Jazz split up in 1963 when he and singer Tabu Ley Rochereau left to form L'Orchestra African Fiesta, which became one of the most popular bands in Africa.
He withdrew from the music scene in the mid 1970s following the collapse of his Belgian record label, and made a few final recordings in Togo, not long before he died in a hospital in Brussels, Belgium in 1985.
Tabu Ley Rochereau
Pascal- Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu( 13 November 1937 or 1940 – 30 November 2013), better known as Tabu Ley Rochereau, was a leading African rumba singer- songwriter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He was the leader of" Orchestre Afrisa International", as well as one of Africa's most influential vocalists and prolific songwriters.
Along with guitarist Dr Nico Kasanda, Tabu Ley pioneered soukous( African rumba) and internationalised his music by fusing elements of Congolese folk music with Cuban, Caribbean and Latin American rumba.
He has been described as" the Congolese personality who, along with Mobutu, marked Africa's 20th century history."
He was dubbed" the African Elvis" by the" Los Angeles Times".
After the fall of the Mobutu regime, Tabu Ley also pursued a political career.
His musical career ran parallel to the other great Congolese rhumba bandleader and rival Franco Luambo Makiadi who ran the band TPOK Jazz throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 80s.
During his career, Tabu Ley composed up to 3,000 songs and produced 250 albums.
John Stauber
John Stauber is an American progressive writer.
Stauber has co-authored five books about government propaganda, private interests and the public relations industry.
His work includes one book about how industry manipulates science(" Trust Us, We're Experts"), one about the history and current scope of the public relations industry(" Toxic Sludge is Good for You"), and one about mad cow disease(" Mad Cow USA"), which predicted the surfacing of the disease within the United States.
In July 2003, Stauber and Sheldon Rampton wrote" Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq", which argued that the Bush administration deceived the American public into supporting the war.
In 2004, the two co-authored" Banana Republicans," which argued that the Republican Party is turning the U.S. into a one- party state.
The book argues that the far-right and its functionaries in the media, lobbying establishment and electoral system are undermining dissent and squelching pluralistic politics in the United States.
In 2006 the two wrote" The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq," which builds upon the arguments they posited in" Weapons of Mass Deception".
Stauber is the founder and former executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which sponsors PR Watch and SourceWatch.
Since the 1960s, he has worked with public interest, consumer, family farm, environmental and community organizations at the local, state and national level.
He edits and writes for the Center's quarterly newsmagazine," PR Watch".
He is also a member of the Liberty Tree Board of Advisers.
Stauber grew up in a conservative Republican household in Marshfield, Wisconsin, but the war in Vietnam turned him into an anti-war and environmental activist while still in high school.
Sheldon Rampton
Sheldon Rampton( born August 4, 1957) is an American editor and author.
He was editor of" PR Watch", and is the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry and what he sees as other forms of corporate and government propaganda.
Malage de Lugendo
Malage de Lugendo( born 25 December 1961), is a DR Congolese soukous recording artist, composer and vocalist.
He was a member of François Luambo Makiadi's seminal band TPOK Jazz, and Tabu Ley Rochereau's band Afrisa International.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
M'bilia Bel
M'bilia Bel( born 1959) is a rumba and world music singer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
She is known as the" Queen of Congolese and African Rumba".
She rose to fame after first being discovered by Sam Manguana and later by Tabu Ley Rochereau who really helped her to gain confidence, master full control of her powerful soprano- voice and to reach to the summit of being one of the best Congolese female singers.
Sam Mangwana
Sam Mangwana( born February 21, 1945), is a Congolese musician, born to a Zimbabwean migrant father and an Angolan mother.
He is the frontman of his bands" Festival des Maquisards" and" African All Stars".
Mangwana was a member of François Luambo Makiadi's seminal band TPOK Jazz, and Tabu Ley Rochereau's bands African Fiesta, African Fiesta National and Afrisa International.
Lynzee Klingman
Lynzee Klingman is an American film editor known for her work on films like" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"( for which she was nominated for an Oscar, along with Richard Chew and Sheldon Kahn) and" A River Runs Through It".
She has also taught editing at the University of Southern California.

Question: Are Tabu Ley Rochereau and Sheldon Rampton of the same nationality?
Answer: no