Pambazuka Magazine has an article on the former DR Congo president: “From Lumumba to Today: Congo’s Struggle for Dignity and Decolonization”. Gaëtan-Dauphin Nzowo remembers Patrice Lumumba’s struggles for the freedom and dignity of Congolese and all African peoples and the tasks for the remaining works of the revolution Lumumba represents.
Nzowo writes: “I was born in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), long after our first Prime Minister, Patrice Émery Lumumba, was assassinated. Yet his shadow defines my generation. His courage haunts our conscience. His words—delivered with fire, conviction, and unwavering dignity—still echo in a country suffocating under the weight of unfinished liberation”.
=> Read more on Pambazuka: From Lumumba to Today: Congo’s Struggle for Dignity and Decolonization
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