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 ...
In The Lumumba Plot (Knopf, Oct.) journalist Reid explores the life of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the CIA’s complicity in his 1961 murder. What ...
The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted. By J. Hoberman “If the prophet dies, so does ...
He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose assassination shocked the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday celebrated the 100th anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s birth. An official ...