Congolese artists and the memory of Lumumba (5/5)
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Patrice Lumumba addresses the Senate, facing his opponent Justin Bomboko, in Léopoldville, September 10, 1960. © AP / H.
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By: Denise Maheho
4 min
The death of Patrice Émery Lumumba on January 17, 1961, just a few months after the accession of the Belgian Congo to independence, did not leave artists indifferent.
Not only Congolese, but also Africans and even internationals.
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Songs, films, plays have been produced about this man who fought against the colonizer and for the emergence of the black man.
Sixty years later, Lumumba's fight, his vision of the nationalist continue to inspire men of culture.
Denise Maheho went to meet some artists in the city of Lubumbashi.
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