Tag: pan-Africanism
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A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
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A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo by Ludo de Witte Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed 55 years ago on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President…