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# Africa!
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# Africa!
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# Ohh, Africa! #
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Hello, bubba!
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How you doin'?
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Ready to dance? I got ants
in my pants, I gotta dance.
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'The fight was held in Zaire,
the former Belgian Congo.
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'Kinshasa was the capital
on the banks of the Congo,
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'this was just before
the rainy season.'
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Up to the north
was the flickering of storms,
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and it was important to the promoters
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that this fight get in
before the storms occurred,
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because once the rainy season comes
you can't do anything.
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The Congo had such a wonderful name,
Conradian and all that.
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To call it Zaire
didn't have quite the majesty,
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but there it was, the Congo.
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(Mailer) 'Mobutu was everywhere.
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'He was the equivalent of Stalin.'
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'You saw his picture everywhere.'
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Part of the vanity of dictators,
with the exception of Mussolini,
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who was half ugly
and half attractive,
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most dictators are unbelievably ugly
or plain - Franco, Hitler...
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'Mobutu looked the archetype,
the epitome of a closet sadist.
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'Sort of guy, if you meet him
in a bar, you think, "Oh, my God!
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'"Who are the poor women
who are associated with this fella?"
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'And since Mobutu was
an extraordinarily practical man,
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'down under the stadium,
which seated 100,000 people,
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'were detention pens
and rooms and chambers