L'Écho du Katanga ('The Echo of Katanga') was a French-language weekly newspaper published from Elisabethville, Congo-Leopoldville.Nomenclature des journaux & revues en langue française du monde entier. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937, p. 535. l'Écho du Katanga was founded in 1929 by Jean Decoster. It replaced Journal du Katanga, which had been founded in 1911. The newspaper promoted European settlement in Congo. Later Decoster's son, Albert Decoster, took over the post as the editor of l'Écho du Katanga.Young, Crawford. The Politics of Cultural Pluralism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, p. 178.

L'Écho du Katanga was closed down in 1962.Ainslie, Rosalynde. The Press in Africa: Communications Past and Present. New York: Walker, 1968, p. 122.

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Media of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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