Patrice Lumumba Nzongola-Ntalaja GeorgesPaperback
Patrice Lumumba Nzongola-Ntalaja GeorgesPaperback Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first…
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Patrice Lumumba Nzongola-Ntalaja GeorgesPaperback
Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister. Lumumba's short tenure as prime minister (1960-1961) was marked by an uncompromising defense of Congolese national interests against pressure from international mining companies and the Western governments that orchestrated his eventual demise.Cold war geopolitical maneuvering and well-coordinated efforts by Lumumba's domestic adversaries culminated in his assassination at the age of thirty-five, with the support or at least the tacit complicity of the U.S. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in the decolonization movement of the 1950s.
Even decades after Lumumba's and Belgian governments, the CIA, and the UN Secretariat.