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‘Symbol of resistance’: Lumumba, the Congolese hero killed before his prime

Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

Al Jazeera

The Long Wave: Andrée Blouin, the unsung heroine of African independence

Politicised by her child’s death, Blouin traded ideas with Lumumba and Nkrumah in the fight for freedom. Plus, Detroit’s Black-led tech boom

The Guardian - UK

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo

Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

The Guardian - UK

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Congolese police arrest 6 suspects over break-in into mausoleum of late independence hero Lumumba

Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa

The Independent UK

Congo says mausoleum holding independence hero Lumumba's gold-capped tooth is vandalized

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized

The Independent UK

Patrice Lumumba Mausoleum Vandalized, Tooth Possibly Stolen

Vandalism of Patrice Lumumba's mausoleum in Congo sparks outrage and renews calls for justice in honoring the revered nationalist leader's memory.

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA

Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary uses the assassination of DRC prime minister Patrice Lumumba to launch a dizzying look into the politics of jazz in the 1950s and 60s

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Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths

Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat reveals the curious link between Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected Black African prime minister

The Guardian - UK

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – finger-popping theory of the conspiracy to kill Congo’s leader

Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary suggests that the US used jazz legend Louis Armstrong in a ‘cool war’ offensive to assassinate Patrice Lumumba

The Guardian - UK

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd review – a spy story to rival Restless

A celebrated travel writer is drawn into a labyrinth of secrets and betrayals by MI6, while battling his childhood trauma, in a masterly tale set in the early 60s

The Guardian - UK

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd review – hugely enjoyable cold war espionage

This cinematic tale of globe-trotting adventure marks the beginning of a new series

The Guardian - UK

Conflict-weary DR Congo votes on December 20: A guide to the election

As the mineral-rich DR Congo prepares to vote for a new president this December, opponents are already crying foul.

Al Jazeera

Akyaaba Addai-Sebo: the shocking conversation that led him to start UK Black History Month

In the mid-1980s he invited Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Jesse Jackson and Ray Charles to talk to communities across the country. Thus began an enormous, ongoing, consciousness-changing event

The Guardian - UK

Will Ukraine be able to win over the Global South in its fight against Russian aggression?

I was running from my home in Kyiv as the Russian army occupied Bucha, Gostomel and Irpin in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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France 24

From Khrushchev’s KGB to Putin: the deep roots of Russian influence in Africa

When Russian President Vladimir Putin develops his network of influence in Africa, he isn’t doing so at random. He is drawing on the rich history of Soviet relations with African countries that dates back to the 1960s and the efforts made by Russian spies during the Cold War to counter…

WEKU

How 'modern-day slavery' in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy

Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."

Financial Times

The 60-year, 4,000-mile journey home of Lumumba’s tooth

Decades after his murder, the tooth of the former Congolese leader turned up in Belgium. This is the story of its return

France 24

Belgian court allows secret documents about DR Congo's Lumumba assassination

A Belgian court agrees to admit the findings of a 22-year-old parliamentary commission into its investigation. The court is looking into the 1961 assassination of DR Congo's Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, seen by many as one of the country's founding fathers. Also on the show: the Ebola outbreak in Uganda…

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The Conversation

Belgium is reviewing its colonial past in the DRC: it's a sensitive but necessary process

The year 2022 is shaping up to be a critical period for the troubled relationship between Kinshasa and Brussels.

The Conversation

Patrice Lumumba’s tooth represents plunder, resilience and reparation

Patrice Lumumba is the hero of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s truncated bid for complete independence. He was assassinated by local counter-revolutionary forces with the help of the CIA and Belgian authorities in 1961. Since then, all over the developing world, Lumumba’s name has come to stand for defiance against…

France 24

Remains of DR Congo's independence hero buried at home

The remains of Congolese icon Patrice Lumumba, the country's first prime minister, are laid to rest in Kinshasa. Belgium returned a tooth belonging to the murdered independence hero earlier this month. Also, African ministers of education were in Paris on Thursday for a UNESCO summit on tackling the devastating effect…

Reuters

Congo buries murdered independence hero Lumumba's only remains

The family of Democratic Republic of Congo's murdered independence hero Patrice Lumumba buried his only known remains, a tooth, in the capital Kinshasa on Thursday, 61 years after his death at the hands of Belgian-backed secessionist rebels.

The Independent UK

Remains of Congo's independence hero interred amid honors

The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday

France 24

Belgium returns tooth taken in 1961 from slain Congolese icon

Relatives of murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba attend a sombre ceremony in Brussels as Belgium returns his tooth. It's all that remains of him after his assassination in 1961. Also, Kenya has no reproductive health legislation but the public is going to have its say on a regional bill…

Radio France Internationale

Remains of independence hero Patrice Lumumba returned to Congo

The remains of the first post-independence Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba arrived Wednesday in the Democratic Republic Congo, more than six decades after his assassination. The remains will go on tour around the country, before being laid to rest in the capital, Kinshasa, next week.

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