#Patrice_Lumumba (1925–1961)
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Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of a newly independent #Congo for only seven months between 1960 and 1961 before he was murdered, fifty-six years ago today. He was thirty-six. Yet Lumumba’s short political life — as with figures like Thomas Sankara and Steve Biko, who had equally short lives — is still a touchstone for […]
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