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The Assassination of Lumumba
The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba—the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity—since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba’s personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics.
El asesinato de Lumumba
El 17 de enero de 1961 Patrice Lumumba, jefe del gobierno de la República del Congo, democráticamente elegido por su pueblo, fue torturado y asesinado como consecuencia de una conspiración organizada por el gobierno de Bélgica, con la complicidad de Estados Unidos, de Gran Bretaña y de las Naciones Unidas. Este hombre íntegro e independiente representaba un obstáculo para sus intereses y era un mal ejemplo para el resto de África. Su muerte condenó al Congo a la rapaz dictadura de Mobutu y a una sucesión de sangrientas guerras civiles, y fue un anuncio de lo que iba a suceder en un continente desgarrado desde entonces por las intervenciones de las grandes potencias. Durante cuarenta años se ha mantenido el silencio sobre este crimen, hasta que, como había anunciado el propio Lumumba, la historia ha hecho oír su voz y el libro de Ludo De Witte ha sacado a la luz la cruda y dramática verdad de unos hechos que han conmovido al mundo entero.
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
As this book shows, the People of the Congo have suffered throughout the past century from a particularly brutal experience of colonial rule, and a series of post-independence political conflicts. But as this insightful political history of the Congolese democratic movement of the 20th century decisively makes clear, its people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down. Instead, they have struggled both to establish democratic institutions at home and to free themselves from exploitations abroad.
Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba (1925–61) was one of the most famous leaders of the African Independence Movement. After his murder, he became an icon of anti-imperialist struggle, and his picture, along with those of Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh, was brandished around the world at demonstrations in the 1960s. This second edition of the only full biography of Lumumba presents his life and quest for the Congo’s liberation, which influenced how the Cold War would be fought in Africa and the nature of the independence granted to huge swaths of the globe after 1945. For those fighting for freedom, Lumumba became a figure of resistance against the imperial colonizers of the world. Including new archival material and information gained from British intelligence, this new edition is a valuable introduction to a pivotal figure of the twentieth century.
de Moord Op Lumumba
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L'assassinat de Lumumba
La nuit est froide, ce dix-sept janvier 1961, au Katanga. La riche province du cuivre, peu aptes l'indépendance du Congo, a fait sécession avec l'aide de la Belgique. Dans la savane boisée, un endroit ouvert est illuminé par les phares des voitures de police. Un commissaire de police belge prend Lumumba par le bras et le mène jusque devant le grand arbre. L'ex-Premier ministre congolais marche avec difficulté : pendant des heures il a été gravement maltraité. Un peloton d'exécution, fort de quatre hommes armés de stenguns-Vigneron et de fusils-FAL, se tient en attente, alors qu'une vingtaine de soldats, de policiers, d'officiers belges et de ministres katangais regardent en silenc...
The Assassination of Lumumba
Employing an array of official sources as well as personal testimony, De Witte unravels the appalling mass of lies that have surrounded the murder of the prime minister of the Republic of Congo. A network of complicity is revealed, ranging from the Belgian government across the United Nations to the CIA.
America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo
This book examines US interventions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda -- two countries whose post-independence histories are inseparable. It analyzes the US campaigns to prevent Patrice Lumumba from turning the DR Congo into a sovereign, democratic, prosperous republic on a continent where America’s ally apartheid South Africa was hegemonic; America’s installation of and support for Mobutu to keep the region under neo-colonial control; and America’s pre-emption of the Africa-wide movement for multiparty democracy in Rwanda and Zaire in the 1990s by supporting Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). In addition, the book discusses the concepts of African development, democracy, genocide, foreign policy, and international politics.
De moord op Lumumba
Op 30 juni 1960 werd de Belgische kolonie Congo onafhankelijk verklaard. Koning Boudewijn schetste in een erg paternalistische redevoering een rooskleurig beeld van de kolonisatie. Tegen het protocol in kwam de verkozen Congolese premier Lumumba met een onverwachte speech: hij richtte zich niet tot de meesters van weleer, maar tot 'de Congolese mannen en vrouwen, strijders voor de onafhankelijkheid die vandaag hun overwinning vieren'. Op 17 januari 1961 werd Lumumba vermoord in Katanga, de rijke koperprovincie die ondertussen met Belgische hulp, van Congo was afgescheurd. In dit boek wordt aan het licht gebracht wie Patrice Lumumba heeft vermoord, waarom en hoe dit is gebeurd. Dit verhaal va...
Lumumba in the Arts
Lumumba as a symbol of decolonisation and as an icon in the arts It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has lived in the realm of the cultural imaginary and occupied an afterlife in the arts. After all, his project remained unfinished and his corpse unburied. The figure of Lumumba has been imagined through painting, photography, cinema, poetry, literature, theatre, music, sculpture, fashion, cartoons and stamps, and also through historiography and in public space. No art form has been able to escape and remain indifferent to Lumumba. Artists observe the memory and the unresolved sufferin...
