Assassinated leaders, from Lumumba to Um Nyobe - Special DRC independence

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By: Valérie Nivelon

Pan-Africanist, radical and uncontrollable, the Prime Minister of Congolese independence Patrice Lumumba was silenced on January 17, 1961, and his body completely dissolved in soda.

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But Lumumba is not the only leader in Central Africa to have paid with his life for his ideas. Living symbols of the struggle for the emancipation of colonized peoples, Patrice Lumumba in the Republic of Congo, Barthélémy Boganda in the Central African Republic, Ruben Um Nyobe and Félix Moumié are murdered one by one.

Why were they sacrificed and by whom? What do they have in common in their emancipation journeys? What vision of Pan-Africanism did they share and how did they become national icons in their country? So many terrifying and nevertheless fascinating questions posed by the publication of Karine Ramondy's thesis, historian of Africa in international relations in the 20th century.

To read:
Leaders assassinated in Central Africa, 1958-1961 , by Karine Ramondy , published by Harmattan.

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