DRC / In the footsteps of Patrice Lumumba: Juliana Lumumba, an extraordinary destiny (1/5)
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Juliana Lumumba on the left with her father Patrice and on the right Juliana holds the photo of her father.
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By: Sonia Rolley Follow
4 min
On January 17, 1961, Patrice Lumumba, deposed Prime Minister of the Congo, was assassinated.
Arousing widespread international emotion, this death helped make the leader a mythical figure in the history of African independence. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of this disappearance, RFI offers for more than a week a series of reports and presentations. 'interviews. She returns to man and myth and recounts the plans hatched by his enemies in Congo, Belgium and the United States.
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He was also a father who exfiltrated three of his children to Egypt under the protection of Egyptian President Nasser.
Meeting with her only daughter, Juliana Lumumba who now lives in Kinshasa in the family home.
She tells about her extraordinary destiny.
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