Mobutu Sese Seko sought to remove European influence in the Congo by

Mobutu promoted a campaign called Authenticité, which aimed to replace European cultural influences with forms he presented as authentically African. As part of it, he encouraged Congolese people to adopt African names and discouraged European or Christian names. Therefore, the best answer is eliminating European names; forbidding traditional African names would have gone in the opposite direction.

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