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Congo-Kinshasa:
10 Things You Might Not Know About Patrice Lumumba
allAfrica, 17 January 2019
(1) January 17 marks the forty-first anniversary of the brutal assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
57 Years Later Belgium Names Square After Patrice Lumumba
This is Africa, 2 July 2018
Belgium renamed the former Square du Bastion to Patrice Lumumba Square but did not discuss reparations or repatriation of the wealth stolen from Congo. The insensitive and… Read more »
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Africa:
Africa's Freedom Struggles and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Africa Renewal, 7 December 2018
70 years since its adoption, the declaration has inspired liberation movements Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Patrice Lumumba, Uncompromising Independence Fighter
DW, 15 June 2018
He's inspired generations: Patrice Lumumba became prime minister when the Congo was still under Belgian colonial rule. But he was forced out of office shortly after the country's… Read more »
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Africa:
Africa the Untold Story
The Point, 25 April 2017
Africa has been politically backward and naïve throughout the last century with so many atrocities, anomalies and injustices. Its children thought that, one day, things will… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Che Guevara in the Congo
Fahamu, 15 December 2017
The idea of Guevara as a latter-day Don Quixote, setting out on his adventures to undo wrongs and bring justice to the world, and, despite a series of disastrous encounters,… Read more »
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East Africa:
Remembering the 1966 Crisis and Congo Gold
Observer, 8 July 2016
My interest in Congolese affairs goes back to childhood memories. When Congo became independent in 1960, I was in standard four in Seseme primary school in Kisoro municipality. Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Ghosts of History and the Policing of Remembrance
Daily Maverick, 22 January 2016
January 17 marked the 55th anniversary of the US- and Belgian-orchestrated assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic… Read more »