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= Hodari Makelele = Hodari Makelele ( born January 1,1975) is a Congolese politician and a member of the Senate of Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2011 to 2016. He is a card carrying member of the Congolese ruling party, the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD).

= Early  Life and Education = Hodari was born on January 1,1975 in the rural Shi community of the Walungu territory of South Kivu, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was born to Thoma and Sabina Hodari, the first born of Eight children. He began his primary school education at College

Alfajiri, located in Bukavu, in the South Kivu of Democratic Republic of the Congo where he completed his first six years of primary education from 1984 – 1985. From 1985, Hodari attended the College Saint Paul in a town called Bangira in the same province of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he obtained his state degree in year,1992.

From 1993 - 1998 he attended the University of Lubumbashi, also known by the acronym UNILU, one of the most prestigious universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in Lubumbashi in Katanga Province in the South- Eastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo and the second-largest city in the country after Kinshasa. There he obtained a degree in Business Management.

= Political Career = Hodari Makelele’s political carear began in 2006 following the formation People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD). In 2011 he was elected into the Democratic Republic of Congo senate, representing the senatorial district of Bukavu. He is largely viewed positively in the province notably through his effort in and struggle for poverty alleviation. From 2007 – 2009, he served as an adviser to the UN on food and agriculture where he was instrumental to the allocation of farmlands and granting of Agricultural funds to the rural farmers of the South- Kivu region. As a result of this economic revival in the region, the amount of locally grown food had double and the reliance on imported food decreased to 64% between 2012 and 2014.

Hodari is generally viewed positively both in kivu province and nationally for both his development of Sud Kivu region.

The media has described Hodari as  “MADE FOR THE PEOPLE “In 2016 nearly 500.000 people signed a petition asking HODARI to become the governor of the province.