No bullshit - my brother in law - was at school with one of Mobutus sons  - and he says he was a right hoho -I will ask him if Mobutu took part in the dads egg and spoon race at sports day- and report back

It's an interesting sub-culture from an anthropological perspective and as it's colourfully flamboyant and stylised in its rituals it has excellent potential as a documentary subject, sell Guinness and to have in R&B videos to compliment the big booty girls. The fact that they all end-up impoverished or selling themselves to Parisiens all adds to the poetry and mystique of it all. They may be the modern equivalent of romantic poets.