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100 1 _aNzongola-Ntalaja, Georges,
_d1944-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPatrice Lumumba /
_cGeorges Nzongola-Ntalaja.
260 _aAthens, Ohio :
_bOhio University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a164 pages :
_bmap ;
_c18 cm.
490 1 _aOhio short histories of Africa
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.
505 0 0 _tEarly years, youth, and formal education, 1925-44 --
_tCivil service career and political apprenticeship in Kisangani, 1944-56 --
_tYears of transition, 1956-58 --
_tThe struggle for independence, 1958-60 --
_tThe short political life of Congo's first prime minister, 1960-61 --
_tLumumba and the counterrevolution in central and southern Africa --
_tLumumba's assassination --
_tThe political legacy of Patrice Lumumba.
520 _aPatrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in the decolonization movement of the 1950s. Lumumba's short tenure as prime minister (1960-1961) was marked by an uncompromising defense of Congolese national interests against pressure from international mining companies and the Western governments that orchestrated his eventual demise. Cold war geopolitical maneuvering and well-coordinated efforts by Lumumba's domestic adversaries culminated in his assassination at the age of thirty-five, with the support or at least the tacit complicity of the U.S. and Belgian governments, the CIA, and the UN Secretariat. Even decades after Lumumba's death, his personal integrity and unyielding dedication to the ideals of self-determination, self-reliance, and pan-African solidarity assure him a prominent place among the heroes of the twentieth-century African independence movement and the worldwide African diaspora.
600 1 0 _aLumumba, Patrice,
_d1925-1961.
600 1 7 _aLumumba, Patrice,
_d1925-1961.
_2fast
600 1 7 _aLumumba, Patrice �E.
_d1925-1961
_2gnd
648 7 _a1908-1997
_2fast
648 7 _a1900-talet
_2sao
650 0 _aPrime ministers
_zCongo (Democratic Republic)
_vBiography.
650 6 _aPremiers ministres
_zCongo (Republique democratique)
_vBiographies.
650 7 _aPolitics and government
_2fast
650 7 _aPrime ministers.
_2fast
650 7 _aPresidenter.
_2sao
651 0 _aCongo (Democratic Republic)
_xPolitics and government
_y1908-1960.
651 0 _aCongo (Democratic Republic)
_xPolitics and government
_y1960-1997.
651 6 _aCongo (République démocratique)
_xPolitique et gouvernement
_y1908-1960.
_910474
651 6 _aCongo (République démocratique)
_xPolitique et gouvernement
_y1960-1997.
651 7 _aCongo (Democratic Republic)
_2fast
655 7 _acollective biographies.
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655 7 _aBiographies.
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830 0 _aOhio short histories of Africa.
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999 _c6841
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