Henri Lopès
| Henri Lopès | |
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| Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville | |
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In office 28 July 1973 – 18 December 1975 |
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| President | Marien Ngouabi |
| Preceded by | Alfred Raoul (1969) |
| Succeeded by | Louis Sylvain Goma |
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12 September 1937 Léopoldville, Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa, Congo-Kinshasa) |
| Political party | Congolese Party of Labour |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne |
Henri Lopès (born 12 September 1937) is a Congolese writer, diplomat, and political figure. He was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 1973 to 1975, and since 1998 he has been the Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France.
Lopès was born across the Congo River in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), the capital of the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). He received his primary education in Brazzaville and Bangui, then went to France in 1949 for his secondary and higher education. While there, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Black African Students and was President of the Association of Congolese Students from 1957 to 1965. Returning to Congo in 1965, he was a history professor at the Ecole normale supérieure d'Afrique Centrale in Brazzaville from 1965 to 1966, then Director-General of Education from 1966 to 1968.
Under President Marien Ngouabi, Lopès was Minister of National Education from January 1969 until becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in December 1971. He was included on the five-member Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in December 1972. Subsequently he was Prime Minister from 1973 to 1975. He visited China in early 1975, but could not meet with Chairman Mao Zedong because Mao was ill. Lopès and his government resigned following a meeting of the PCT Central Committee in December 1975, and Louis Sylvain Goma was appointed to replace him.
After working as political director of Etumba from 1975 to 1977, Lopès was reappointed to the government as Minister of Finance on 5 April 1977; he served in that position until Justin Lekoundzou was appointed to replace him in December 1980. Subsequently he worked at UNESCO as Assistant Director-General for Culture and Deputy Director-General for Africa from 1981 to 1998.
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