Recently, a small but historically significant gesture took place in Brussels, the capital of Belgium. The gesture was the naming of a square in a prominent place in the town after Patrice Emery ...

Congolese independence hero Patrice Emery Lumumba shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against former colonial power Belgium, but ended up being executed by opponents ...

A Belgian court announced that it would return Patrice Émery Lumumba’s tooth to his family. Juliana Lumumba, daughter of the hero of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s independence, spoke with ...

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It is difficult to tell whether Roland Lumumba’s low tone of voice is an expression of his fatigue, relief or simply a certain weariness. Speaking in early June, the only thing that Patrice Émery ...

FILE PHOTO: A photo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's first Prime Minister Patrice Emery Lumumba is pictured at a ceremony after the remains of PM Lumumba were symbolically handed over to the ...

Kenya: Early in the morning of January 17, 1961, they were collected from the army camp at Thysville and taken to an airfield at Moanda accompanied by three soldiers from Kasai, especially chosen for ...

No one apart from the Congolese people has ever paid a price for the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba. By Stuart A. Reid Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ...

Patrice Emery Lumumba, whose remains were returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo last week, shot to fame on June 30, 1960 with a blistering independence speech against former colonial power ...