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D.R. of Congo: Remembering Patrice Lumumba

Posted 17 January 2011 16:49 GMT 1 · Written by Ndesanjo Macha

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, D.R. of Congo, History, Politics

Dave Donelson remembers Patrice Lumumba ^[1]: “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.”