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Remembering Patrice Lumumba, African anti-colonial leader assassinated by Belgium and CIA
July 2 marked the centenary of the birth of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first democratically-elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and icon of the anti-colonial struggle in Africa. Alongside independence leaders like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and the anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, Lumumba symbolizes the struggle against colonial domination, oppression, and…
Patrice Émery Lumumba, born on July 2, 1925 in Katako-Kombe, in the then Belgian Congo, lived less than 36 years. He reached him to become one of the greatest revolutionary symbols of the Third World. In 1958 he founded the Congolese National Movement (MNC) and two years later he became head of the first independent government of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo. He barely lasted a couple of months in office, when he was overthrown and a…
Ambassador of Ukraine Vasily Gamyanin presented to President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Chisekedi a postage stamp and a commemorative coin issued on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the country's national hero Patrice Lumumba. — Ukrinform.
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