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Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician, independence leader and revolutionary who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic from June until September 1960, following his party's success in the May 1960 election. Lumumba was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC) from 1958 until his assassination in 1961. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-A…
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politics · Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961) · revolutionary · founder · politician · also Patrice Lumumba, Patrice Emery Lumumba, Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, Élias Okit'Asombo, Lumumba
Born 2 July 1925 · Died 17 January 1961 · Q161672
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One day, history will have its say, but it will not be the history they teach at the UN, in Washington, Paris or Brussels but the history they teach in countries freed from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history and it will be one of glory and dignity.
Why, after his terrible murder, have Lumumba
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“One day, history will have its say, but it will not be the history they teach at the UN, in Washington, Paris or Brussels but the history they teach in countries freed from colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history and it will be one of glory and dignity.”
“Why, after his terrible murder, have Lumumba”
“Thoroughgoing reforms are planned in all sectors. My government will make every possible effort to see that our country has a different face in a few months, a few weeks.”
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Diario Occidente: Patrice Émery Lumumba, la voz que los belgas quemaron con ácidos
Public attention spiked: 7,837 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 2,469, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Final days and assassination added hatnote
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Public attention spiked: 21,704 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.8× the usual 2,469, with 14 article edits. Editors noted: Tribute at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations added his continued tribute at the World Cup
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Public attention spiked: 27,485 Wikipedia readers in one day, 11.1× the usual 2,469, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 80,988 Wikipedia readers in one day, 32.8× the usual 2,469, with 6 article edits. Editors noted: United States involvement typo?
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Public attention spiked: 20,157 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.2× the usual 2,469, with 0 article edits.
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Lumumba's tooth was returned by the Belgian government to his family
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Revealed that an American role in Lumumba's murder was only under consideration by the CIA
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The planned community of Lumumbaville was named after him
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The US State Department admitted that Eisenhower discussed plans at a NSC meeting on 18 August 1960 to assassinate Lumumba
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Awarded Order of the Companions of O. R. Tambo (2004).
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Won: South Africa (June 2004).
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Belgium formally apologised for its role in the execution, admitting "moral responsibility"
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Lumumba, became significantly more positive afterwards
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A newly declassified interview with Robert Johnson, who was the minutekeeper of the US National Security Council at the time in question, revealed that Eisenhower had said "something [to CIA chief Allen Dulles] to the ef
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Revived interest in Lumumba's death
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Said, "I can see only two possible solutions to the problem
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That the CIA base chief in Elizabethville was in direct contact with Lumumba's killers on the night he was executed
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That he had given instructions to assassinate Lumumba
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The Church Committee went on record with the finding that CIA chief Allen Dulles had ordered Lumumba's assassination as "an urgent and prime objective"
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“Opis: słowa z 11 grudnia 1964 wypowiedziane w trakcie posiedzenia Zgromadzenia Ogólnego ONZ.”
Also went to Stanleyville and did the same
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That "I think we overrated the Soviet danger, let's say, in the Congo
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Died 1961-01-17.
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A street in Belgrade was named after Lumumba
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And continuing for several years thereafter, some biographies of him were published
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Adoula became Prime Minister of the Congo
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“I have never doubted for a single instant that the sacred cause to which my comrades and I have dedicated our entire lives would triumph in the end. But what we wanted for our country—its right to an honorable life, to perfect dignity, to independence with no restrictions—was never wanted by Belgian colonialism and its Western allies.”
“The Soviet Union is the only great power whose position has reflected the will and wishes of our people. Therefore the Soviet Union proves to be the only great power that has supported the Congolese people in their struggle from the beginning.”
Won: Morocco (August 1960).
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Won: Tunisia (August 1960).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown presented by Baudouin I of Belgium (1960).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960–1960).
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But viewed him as a martyr of Congolese independence at the hands of certain Western interests and the victim of events over which he had little control
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The MNC split into the majority MNC-L, led by Lumumba, and the more radical and federalist MNC-K
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And quickly became the organisation's leader
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Was arrested on charges of embezzlement of $2500 from the post office
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Lumumba became regional head of the Cercles of Stanleyville and joined the Liberal Party of Belgium
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Was hired to work as a personal assistant for French sociologist Pierre Clément, who was performing a study of Stanleyville
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Born 1925-07-02.
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