In the 1960's which dictator built the 'Versailles of the Jungle' at Gbadolite?
Gbadolite Gbadolite Gbadolite or Gbado-Lite (pronounced ) is the capital of Nord-Ubangi Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is located south of the Ubangi River at the border to the Central African Republic and northeast of the national capital Kinshasa. Gbadolite was the ancestral home and residence of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, later self-styled as Mobutu Sese Seko where airport, colleges, malls, supermarkets and libraries were built by the President to respond to modernity characteristics. Mobutu built Gbadolite into a luxurious town often nicknamed "Versailles of the Jungle". He built a hydroelectric dam on the nearby Ubangi River in
In the Jungle of Cities play in New York, opening on 16 December 1960. In October 1991, Ruth Berghaus directed the play at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg as part of a series of 'related texts', as she called them (which also included Büchner's "Danton's Death"). In the Jungle of Cities In the Jungle of Cities ("Im Dickicht der Städte") is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Written between 1921 and 1924, it received its first theatrical production under the title "Im Dickicht" ("In the jungle") at the Residenztheater in Munich, opening on 9 May 1923. This production was directed by Erich