Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, and renowned ...

Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first-elected, left-wing Prime Minister, is remembered around the world as an icon of African independence, but is legacy is more complicated at home. However, on the ...

Renowned Pan-African scholar and legal expert, Professor Patrick Lumumba, has issued a stern warning that Africa will remain ...

Lumumba was killed by a firing squad on January 16, 1961, in the southeastern province of Katanga after being deposed as prime minister the previous year, all within months of DRC’s independence ...

Independence leader Patrice Lumumba, who served as the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first prime minister before his 1961 assassination, was interred on Thursday in a mausoleum in the heart of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday celebrated the 100th anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s birth. An official ceremony was held to honour his memory, at the mausoleum where his remains are ...

Patrice Lumumba was an inspirational hero to millions of his countrymen. Skip to content. Close. ... Now prime minister, he formed his first (and only) government on June 24, 1960.

Raoul Peck's new movie, Lumumba, tells story of Patrice Lumumba, strong nationalist who became Congo's first elected prime minister after it won its independence from Belgium in 1960, who was ...

When Lumumba sought assistance from the Soviet Union, President Kasavubu dismissed him as Prime Minister on 5 September 1960, as Mobutu, the army strongman, stood by (Henning Melber, Dag ...

The weekend before last, the Belgian government returned a gold-capped tooth to the family of Patrice Lumumba, an independence leader and the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Lumumba Review LA Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Lumumba, a new film about the Congo's martyred first prime minister.The movie tackles the complex reality of post-colonial Africa and the ...

Lumumba was killed by a firing squad on Jan. 16, 1961 in the southeastern province of Katanga after being ousted as prime minister the previous year, all within months of Congo's independence from ...