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Patrice Lumumba
Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
"Lumumba" redirects here. For other uses, see Lumumba (disambiguation).
Patrice Émery Lumumba[e] (pə-TREESS luu-MUUM-bə;[3] born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 election. He was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC) from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-Africanist, he played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium into an independent republic.
Shortly after Congolese independence in June 1960, a mutiny broke out in the army, marking the beginning of the Congo Crisis. After a coup, Lumumba attempted to escape to Stanleyv
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At 99, the memory of Patrice Lumumba only grows stronger, as a new book uncovers fresh details about his gruesome assassination 64 years ago.
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
Stuart A. Reid (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023), 618 Pages
“Sulfuric acid turned Lumumba, “into a mass of mucus”. But the bones and teeth survived, and when the acid ran out, Katanga’s Belgian Police Commissioner, Gerard Soete and his brother Michael, ‘doused the remaining parts with gasoline and set them aflame. The whole job took two days. Soete returned home a changed man, his daughter observed. Along with the darkness he brought back, he carried a gruesome souvenir: one of Lumumba’s fingers and a pair of gold-capped molars, twisted out from his skull with pliers.”
The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly the Belgian Congo, celebrated its 64th Independence Day on June 30. Considered the richest country in the world, its natural resources are va
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Character Sketches: Patrice Lumumba by Brian Urquhart
The Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, during a visit to UN Headquarters in New York. (24 July 1960)
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the independent state of the Congo, was effectively in power for only ten weeks, but he has become a figure of myth and legend — to some a martyr, to others a monster. Under Belgian colonial rule, Lumumba had been a postal clerk and then a beer salesman. He had written an intelligent and even humorous book, Congo, Mon Pays, about the tribulations of his country under Belgium, in which he seemed to see the Congo’s future as a cooperative effort with the Belgians to move from paternalism, tribalism and colonialism to independence and national unity. As a leader of the Mouvement Nationale Congolais (MNC) he was arrested by the Belgians for the first and only time after a noisy demonstration in Stanleyville in 1959, and was released to take pa