Fernand Kikongi

Fernand Kikongi di Mwisa (1 September 1935 – 1 April 2009) was a Congolese trade union leader.

Born in Kinshasa, Kikongi was educated at the School of Social Studies in Leuven, before returning to Zaire, where he became the general secretary of the National Union of Congolese Workers, and then president of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation. Internationally, he was elected as president of the Democratic Organization of African Workers' Trade Union, and then from 1997 was president of the World Confederation of Labour. He retired in 2001 and suffered a lengthy illness, dying in 2009.[1][2]

References
  1. "Obituaries" (PDF). International Trade Union Confederation. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. Kikongi, Fernand (2004). Le syndicalisme congolais pendant la colonisation (1908-1960). Centre protestant d'éditions et de diffusion. ISBN 9782751500008.
Trade union offices
Preceded by
Willy Peirens		 President of the World Confederation of Labour
1997–2001		 Succeeded by
Basile Mahan Gahé
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