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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- King of the Belgians (1951–1993) who ascended the throne after his father, Leopold III, abdicated. In 1960, he granted independence to the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
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Mwana kitoko means, in Congolese, beautiful boy and is the way the Congolese referred to the young Baudouin I, the last Belgian king to rule the land before, in 1960, it was granted independence.
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