A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions. By Alissa Wilkinson The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am ...

On this episode of American Prestige, a discussion about the downfall of the first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner Here's where to find podcasts from ...

I am the Congo, the Congo has made me. I am making the Congo. —Patrice Lumumba Four years after his death, a lot of people talk as if Patrice Emergy Lumumba were still the Congo. In and out of the U.N ...

In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the death of one of Africa’s most famous post-colonial politicians. By ...

Leopoldville, on 30 June 1960. With the declaration of its independence, the DRC finally emerges from its long colonial history. A new bilateral system is established with a head of state as cunning ...

Patrice Lumumba was an inspirational hero to millions of his countrymen. In the eyes of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, the Congolese nationalist was erratic, inept, and “an ignorant pawn” of ...

Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past and ...

💡Do you remember when you first came across the story of Patrice Lumumba? Sometime in college. I wrote my thesis on leaders who died in office (which almost describes Lumumba — he was killed after ...

For Juliana Lumumba, he was not just a politician: Patrice Lumumba was her father. That's why she continues to demand the truth about an assassination for which no one has faced justice.For more than ...

FILE - In this July 24, 1960 file photo, Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba waves as he sits in car for the drive from Idlewild Airport, New York after his arrival from Europe to speak to the United ...