Shaba InvasionsDR Congo / Angola · 1977–1978“Draw near — the atlas keeps this thread, and tonight the fire lends it a voice.”Twice the old Katangese gendarmes came home from Angola with rifles — across the border into Shaba, as Mobutu had renamed their province, in 1977 and again in 1978, when they took the mining town of Kolwezi and the world's copper markets shivered.