Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s broken fate
By DW
31 May 2018 |
3:50 pm
From postal employee to Prime minister of the independent Congo within a few years: Patrice Lumumba, the autodidact, did his utmost to fight colonialism, shrinking before no sacrifice.
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