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• Patrice Lumumba

  Lumumba’s tooth: Belgium’s unfinished reckoning with its colonial past

  2 June 2022, by FARIS Stephan, GIJS Camille

  The remains of Congo’s independence leader are forcing the country’s colonizer to confront its brutal history.
  The tooth’s journey begins in the Belgian Congo in the 1930s. In the Katako-Kombe region, not far from the colony’s geographic center, it pushes through the gum and into the mouth of (…)

• Patrice Lumumba

  In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961

  17 January 2021, by TOUSSAINT Éric

  On 17 January 2021, we commemorate the 60^th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).
  After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of Congo from 24 June 1960 until his overthrow and (…)

• Patrice Lumumba

  The Truth about a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists

  30 June 1960, by LUMUMBA Patrice

  English translation of the speech delivered in Parliament (Léopoldville) after those by King Baudouin and President Joseph Kasavubu, on the day of the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Congo, 30 June 1960.
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  Men and women of the Congo,
  Victorious (…)