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A member of the House of Lords, Lord Lea, has written to the London Review of Books saying that shortly before she died, fellow peer and former MI6 officer Daphne Park told him Britain had been involved in the death of Patrice Lumumba, the elected leader of the Congo, in 1961.
Malcolm X on the Assasination of Lumumba in the Congo
Malcolm X points to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in Africa by Moise Tshombe (with the help of the CIA) as a clear example of post-Colonial foreign interference. Lumumba was the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Ten weeks later, Lumumba’s government was deposed in a coup. He was subsequently imprisoned and murdered, with clear signs pointing to the support and complicity of both Belgium and the United States.
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Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961)
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DYNAMIC AFRICA HOLIDAY GIFT LIST ITEM #12: A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art
A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art provides a unique encounter with the Independence movement that took hold in urban cafés of the Congo.
This study is developed around a series of about fifty urban art or popular paintings, a genre traceable to the 1920s, by the influential artist Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu. It chronicles contemporary social and political realities in its depiction of the dramatic political career of Patrice Lumumba, the father of Congo independence who became the nation’s first Prime Minister in 1960, but was soon after killed under mysterious circumstances.
This book helps us understand not only how Congolese view the turbulent years of their independence, but also how it relates to their beliefs. The paintings show how art contributes to the creation of a national history and national heroes, and shapes the national consciousness in a newly independent, multi-cultural society. Essays discuss popular urban art, the life of Patrice Lumumba, Tshibumba’s series of Lumumba paintings, the Congolese memory of Lumumba, and Congolese cultural heroes.
We must write our own stories.
Ah, just wished they’d put the actual Patrice Emery Lumumba instead of the actor that portrayed him, brilliantly so, in Raoul Peck’s biopic.
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Collage artwork by Algerian artist Mustapha Boutadjine featuring prominent world history figures from Miriam Makeba and Abdoulaye Sadji, to Patrice Lumumba and Danièle Djamila Amrane-Minne.
Lumumba (Part 1/9)
Film that tells the story of the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected leader Patrice Emery Lumumba, starring Eriq Ebouaney as the revolutionary Congolese leader.
Dir: Raoul Peck (2000)
Additional viewing: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Lumumba: La Mort Du Prophete
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Original footage of Patrice Lumumba’s Independence Day speech on June 30th, 1960, taken from the Raoul Peck documentary “Lumumba: La Mort du Prophet”.
Watch the entire film here.
Congolese urban art, or popular painting, is a primary medium of urban cultural memory in the Congo. The popular paintings in A Congo Chronicle trace the first non-colonial president of the country, Patrice Lumumba’s story from his winning of the national elections during the period preceding the Congo’s accession to independence, his daring independence tirade, and his subsequent removal from power and execution.
The paintings had a huge impact on the election of Lumumba for the first president, and helped transform him into a powerful symbol. They were made to be within the buying power of the urban middle classes, and could thus be reproduced, hung in homes, and had a major political effect in a country where many people did not read or have access to mass media.
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Lumumba (Part 1/9)
Film that tells the story of the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected leader Patrice Emery Lumumba, starring Eriq Ebouaney as the revolutionary Congolese leader.
Dir: Raoul Peck (2000)
Additional viewing: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Lumumba: La Mort Du Prophete
