Fernand Kikongi
Congolese trade union leader
About Fernand Kikongi
Lived 1935 – 2009 (aged 73–74). Fernand Kikongi was a Congolese.
Fernand Kikongi di Mwisa (1 September 1935 – 1 April 2009) was a Congolese trade union leader.
Born in Kinshasa, Kikongi was educated at the School of Social Studies in Leuven, before returning to Zaire, where he became the general secretary of the National Union of Congolese Workers, and then president of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation. Internationally, he was elected as president of the Democratic Organization of African Workers' Trade Unions, and then from 1997 was president of the World Confederation of Labour. He retired in 2001 and suffered a lengthy illness, dying in 2009.
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Who was Fernand Kikongi?
Congolese trade union leader (1935–2009)
When was Fernand Kikongi born?
Fernand Kikongi was born in 1935.
When did Fernand Kikongi die?
Fernand Kikongi died in 2009.
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Fernand Kikongi was Congolese.
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