A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions. By Alissa Wilkinson The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am ...

The Congolese prime minister with a tragically brief tenure lives on as a secular saint, much like his contemporaries JFK and Che. A tooth will change hands during a solemn ceremony in Brussels this ...

Patrice Lumumba was an inspirational hero to millions of his countrymen. In the eyes of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, the Congolese nationalist was erratic, inept, and “an ignorant pawn” of ...

I am the Congo, the Congo has made me. I am making the Congo. —Patrice Lumumba Four years after his death, a lot of people talk as if Patrice Emergy Lumumba were still the Congo. In and out of the U.N ...

Belgian authorities on Monday returned a gold-capped tooth belonging to the slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as the former colonial power continues to confront its bloody past and ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday. The interment in a specially-built mausoleum will be ...

Patrice Lumumba was the DRC's first Black Prime Minister and was only in office for a few months before he was overthrown in a military coup and later assassinated. A gold crowned tooth that belonged ...

Kenya: After reading my column on Patrice Lumumba, one of our readers wrote the following: “My name is Eliud Biegon. While reading for my History degree, I took an interest in Patrice Emery Lumumba ...

FILE - In this July 24, 1960 file photo, Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba waves as he sits in car for the drive from Idlewild Airport, New York after his arrival from Europe to speak to the United ...