Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It's not immediately clear whether Lumumba’s remains ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Shortly before noon on a Thursday in June 1960, 34-year-old Patrice Lumumba stepped up to the podium at the Palace of the Nation in Leopoldville (current ...

Xai, residents have invaded and divided up a pasture area on Nguluzane farm. The owners says that the usurpation of the area ...

Andreé Blouin was erased from history despite her pivotal role in African independence. Today she has a book prize named ...

TASS/. The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) has once again been bestowed with the name of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

TASS/. The return to the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) the name of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, will contribute to further ...

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, ...

Johan Grimonprez unearths truths about the overthrow of Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, that history tried to sever, layering them like an intricate composition where every note ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

the U.S., and the United Nations to eliminate Pan-African nationalist Patrice Lumumba. In this rigged game of chess, men and women like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Nina Simone are used ...