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Mobutu Sese Seko caricature

Mobutu Sese Seko staged a coup in 1965 and became a powerful dictator for 35 years. But around 1990 the country has become almost ungovernable, the army complains, the people blame him... Mobutu gradually lost all his allies and his regime was doomed.
"He struggled like a devil in a holy water font", but the end of his reign was inevitable.

"He struggles like a devil in a holy water font", an expression in Dutch to say
 that someone is making desperate attempts to escape from something.

"He struggles like a devil in a holy water font", an expression in Dutch to say
that someone is making desperate attempts to escape from something.

A caricature for the children's newspaper 'Kits'...

A caricature for the children's newspaper 'Kits'...