Two sons of the late Congo Premier, Patrice Lumumba, stand beside Madame Ishak at the memorial mass for the slain former ...

Stuart A. Reid is an executive editor at Foreign Affairs and the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination, from which this article is adapted.

Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kwame Nkrumah—four towering figures of Pan-Africanism whose lives were cut short by violence and betrayal, yet whose dreams of a united, ...

The object? A tooth that had once belonged to Patrice Lumumba, and is now all that remains of The Democratic Republic of the Congo's first democratically-elected prime minister. Lumumba was known ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patrice Lumumba, left, leader of the Congolese National Party (MNC) and Prime Minister-Designate of the Belgian Congo, ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It’s not immediately clear ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s ...