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  1. 3 days ago · Patrice Émery Lumumba (/ l ʊ ˈ m ʊ m b ə / ⓘ; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, 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 ...

  2. 18 hours ago · Lumumba argued that the collective strength of African states could counter external manipulations and exploitations. His speeches often called for an African federation, emphasizing common cultural and historical ties. Lumumba’s participation in the All-African Peoples' Conference exemplified his commitment to this cause.

  3. 5 days ago · But for a long time, one monument in memory of Belgium’s colonial rule in Africa has been missing. This was partly corrected this year on 23 April 2018, when Brussels City Council decided to name a square after the tragic figure of Patrice Lumumba.

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  5. 1 day ago · Two weeks before his murder, on January 4th 1961, Patrice Lumumba wrote from prison in Thysville (now Mbanza-Ngungu) to Rajeshwar Dayal, a Special Representative to the UN Secretary General. In prison, Lumumba was accompanied by Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, two political associates who had planned to assist him in setting up a new government.

  6. 3 days ago · The confrontation in Congo was kept limited by a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force, which ended the secession of the province of Katanga in 1964. At the same time, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) intervened to help create a pro-Western government and eliminate the Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba.

  7. 2 days ago · Global Lumumba Adulé par beaucoup, conspué par certains, le premier Premier ministre de la République du Congo Patrice Lumumba est devenu une référence internationale.

  8. 3 days ago · Lumumba’s announcement The Belgian cartoonist Hergé’s Tintin series, for example, includes the infamous Tintin au Congo book, which likewise depicts Africans as inferior apelike creatures. Unsurprisingly, “macaques” (monkeys) was one of the racist terms used by Whites in the Belgian Congo for Blacks, as was “macacos” in Portuguese Africa.

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