Fulbert Youlou and the legend of the magic cassock

Fulbert Youlou is a politician and abbot whose electoral campaign was surrounded by mysticism. A local legend claimed that he bathed in a cassock in the Loufoulakari falls to invoke spirits, and that his clothes remained dry despite the immersion. This mystical aura contributed to making him a living myth and the symbol of opposition to colonialism in 1955.