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How The American Government Assassinated A Very Great African Leader #Threader
Patrice Emery Lumumba was the first Congolese Prime Minister to lead the Congolese independence struggle and was assassinated by the CIA.
Patrice Emery Lumumba was the first Congolese Prime Minister to lead the Congolese independence struggle and was assassinated by the CIA.
He was born in 1925 in a Congolese village in the province of Kasai in the Belgian colony of Congo. Lumumba attended a local mission school and after graduation worked as a clerk at the colonial tax office and later in the postal service, where he served as assistant postmaster.
In the 1950s, Lumumba began writing and promoting, writing articles for anti- colonial publications on behalf of the Congolese anti- colonial movement, and in 1956 his book Congo, " My Country" , explored Congolese problems and conveyed people' s...
