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Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader

by Leo Zeilig

  

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ISBN: 9781913368777

Patrice Lumumba had been prime minister of the newly liberated Congo for only seven months at the time of his assassination in 1961. As news of his execution spread, his image was brandished in demonstrations around the world along with those of Che Guevara and Mao Zedong. He would go on to become an icon of anti-imperialist struggle and perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. Lumumba's life and the freedom that he sought for the Congo exposed ongoing Western colonialism and the problematic nature of the independence granted to huge swathes of the globe after 1945.



Leo Zeilig's concise, direct biography tells the story of the Congo in the dying days of colonialism; of Lumumba's transition from nationalist, to revolutionary, to international symbol of African liberation; and of the role of Western powers in his murder.

224 pages.

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Date of Publication: 04/06/2026

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