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D.R. of Congo: Remembering Patrice Lumumba

Written byNdesanjo Macha
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Posted 17 January 2011 14 years ago

Dave Donelson remembers Patrice Lumumba: “Lumumba's death just months after his choice as the Democratic Republic of Congo's first freely-elected leader was akin to strangling the infant nation in its cradle.”

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