Yeah he seems okay...
In February 2005, Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso, Gabonese president Omar Bongo and French president Jacques Chirac gathered at a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for a memorial to Brazza, a mausoleum of Italian marble. On 30 September 2006, Brazza's remains were exhumed in Algiers along with those of his wife and four children.They were reinterred in Brazzaville on 3 October in a new, marble mausoleum built for them at a cost of some US$10 million dollars. The reburial ceremony was attended by three African presidents and a French foreign minister, who paid tribute to Brazza's humanitarian work against slavery and the abuse of African workers.
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The decision to honour Brazza as a founding father of the Republic of the Congo has elicited protests among some Congolese. Mwinda Press, the journal of the Association of Congolese Democrats in France, published articles quoting Théophile Obenga who depicted Brazza as a coloniser and not a humanist. He was declared to have raped a Congolese woman, who was a princess and the equivalent of a Vestal Virgin, and to have pillaged villages, raising highly charged questions as to why he should be revered as a national hero instead of the Congolese who fought against colonisation.
