Now there is a much greater recognition of the harm Belgium caused in Belgian Congo and Rwanda. Under Belgian rule the ...
The slayings were part of a campaign of rampaging guerrilla forces reportedly led by Pierre Mulele, a 34-year-old former education minister in the cabinet of the late Patrice Lumumba. Mulele ...
Guests included government ministers and leaders of the Cuban and South African communist parties ... The names Toussaint l’Ouverture (Haiti), Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), or Patrice Lumumba (DR of Congo) ...
The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...
And in the mineral-rich Katanga region, this led to the assassination of the young prime minister of the newly independent state of Congo, Patrice Lumumba How Armstrong and other musicians were ...
For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs ...
‘Operation Colombo’ was followed by ‘Operation Condor’ in Chile and Argentina. Meanwhile, a colonial model and pattern of dependent economic development and under-development was cultivated with the ...
Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is a phenomenal film—brilliantly crafted. Johan Grimonprez unearths truths about the overthrow of Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, that history tried to sever ...
For many, the better life they had expected in return for acquiescing to Communist Party rule is not materialising. The country’s leader, Xi Jinping, may wonder whether a warning he gave in 2014 ...