Mvemba Phezo Dizolele

Mvemba Dizolele is a senior fellow and director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and an African studies lecturer at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Previously, he was Africa senior advisor at the International Republican Institute and course coordinator for central and southern Africa at the US Foreign Service Institute. Dizolele has held fellowships at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, testified before the US Congress and UN Security Council, was an international election monitor and delegate in several African countries, and was an embedded reporter with UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is a veteran of the US Marine Corps Reserve and author of a forthcoming biography, Mobutu: The Rise and Fall of the Leopard King.