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Belgium to Return Tooth of Assassinated DR Congo Leader Lumumba

A court in Belgium has cleared the way for the tooth of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba to be returned to his native country. Lumumba, DR Congo's first prime minister, was assassinated in 1961 and his body destroyed, except for a single tooth. Lumumba became the newly independent Congo's first prime minister in 1960 when he was just 34 years old, after advocating for an end to colonial rule. But after a military coup and the rise of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, Lumumba was arrested and jailed and assassinated by separatists in January 1961.

The death of Lumumba is a highly contentious event in African history. Question have persisted for decades over the alleged complicity of Belgium and the United States in the coup and his death, due to his perceived ties to the Soviet Union.

Congo-Kinshasa: Belgium to Return Tooth of Assassinated Leader Patrice Lumumba

DW, 10 September 2020

Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister, was assassinated in 1961 and his body destroyed, except for a single tooth. After years of lobbying, his daughter told DW getting his… Read more »
South Africa: We Need to Talk About Classical Liberalism

New Frame, 31 July 2020

A history of enslavement, colonialism, wars and coups by so-called liberal states refutes the notion that this political ideology is the true home of inclusion and non-racialism. Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: King Leopold's Legacy - the Lingering Chaos in DR Congo

DW, 29 June 2020

60 years after independence, traces of the system of exploitation and violence that Leopold II and colonial-era Belgium created still remain in DR Congo. The propensity for… Read more »
Liberia: African Leaders, Patriots or Egotists?

FrontPageAfrica, 21 January 2020

Throughout the pages of history, humanity has struggled to free itself from containment and the tentacles of dictatorship, and with only a very few exceptions, the African… Read more »