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 ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1960, the Congo crisis was front-page news. The newly independent country in central Africa was internally fracturing, and the government of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba seemed ...

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have launched an investigation after the mausoleum where Patrice Lumumba’s tooth is being kept was vandalized. Per Reuters, the incident occurred on ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — 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 ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday. The interment in a specially-built mausoleum will be ...

FILE - Workers stand by a memorial for Democratic Republic of the Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba, in Kinshasa, Congo, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi, File) KINSHASA, Congo (AP) ...

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 ...