Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician, independence leader and revolutionary who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic from June until September 1960, following
Lumumba in 1960
Photograph of Lumumba, c. 1950s
Lumumba pictured in Brussels at the Round Table Conference with other members of the MNC-L delegation, 26 January 1960
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, and formerly named Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-largest
Patrice Lumumba
…was a Congolese politician, independence leader and revolutionary who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic (modern day Democratic Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following his party's success in the May 1960 election. Lumumba was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC…
Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville, was murdered by Belgian-supported Katangan separatists in 1961.
Mobutu Sese Seko and Richard Nixon in Washington, D.C., 1973
Mobutu with the Dutch Prince Bernhard in Kinshasa in 1973