The Independence Ball (5/6)

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By: Valérie Nivelon

In 1960, 17 African countries acceded to national sovereignty! But, how did Africans experience it? How did the great intellectual and political figures of decolonization fight? Has France compromised itself to maintain its colonial hold? In six widely revisited episodes enriched with sometimes unpublished sound and musical archives, Valérie Nivelon tells you about this independence ball every Sunday at 12:10 p.m. Paris time and 10:10 UT, from July 26 to August 30, 2020.

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Episode 5  "  The assassinated leaders  "
Pan-Africanist, radical and uncontrollable, the Prime Minister of Congolese independence Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in January 1961. But, Lumumba is not the only leader of Central Africa to have paid with his life for his ideas. Living symbols of the struggle for the emancipation of Africans, Barthélémy Boganda in the Central African Republic, Ruben Um Nyobe and Félix Moumié also disappeared from violent deaths. For what reasons were they sacrificed and by whom?

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

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