Patrice Émery Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba the prime minister assassinated in 1961 with Belgian connivance proclaimed at the 1960 independence ceremony that Belgian rule had taught Congo-Kinshasa to know the ‘ironies the insults the blows that we had to submit to morning noon and night because we were Negroes’...

Kabila's team also underestimated the old Eastern Kasaï rivalry between the Tetela (whose leaders have included the late Patrice Lumumba and She Okitundu) and the Baluba...

Only Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga's Parti Lumumbiste Unifié has something approaching an ideology harking back to the radical nationalism of the murdered Independence leader Patrice Lumumba...

Kasai businessman Jonas Mukamba Kadiata 76 who participated in the abduction of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 and later became chief executive of state diamond company MIBA; 2...

The leader of the Parti Lumumbiste Unifié (Palu) Antoine Gizenga 81 a deputy premier in the first post-Independence government led by Patrice Lumumba may do well in Kinshasa and his home region of Bandundu...

Mbeki told parliament in Kinshasa that the memory of the murdered Congolese nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba should be honoured by bringing prosperity to his country...

Other names to watch are Jean-Baptiste Sondji once Kabila's popular Health Minister but sacked for independent thinking; the courageous Joseph Olengankhoy who has spent long months in gaol for defying the opposition ban; François Lumumba son of the murdered independence leader Patrice Lumumba; Baudoin Hanuli coordinator of the Campaign for Lasting Peace the Campagne Nationale pour la Paix Durable au Congo; and Félicien Malanga of the Conseil National des ONGs du Développement...

The Belgian parliament's decision to open an investigation into the assassination of Patrice Lumumba will go down well in Kinshasa...

His narrow coalition does not even include Antoine Gizenga’s Parti Lumumbiste Unifié strongly based in Kinshasa and the Bandundu and the largest of the various groups loyal to the memory of Patrice Lumumba...

He is close to Victor Nendaka- Bika who along with Mobutu and Jonas Mukamba Kadiata organised the transfer of Patrice Lumumba to meet his death in Katanga in January 1961...

Kabila and his colleagues have not forgiven the UN for what they see as its part in the murder in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba and his replacement by the then Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu...

Some in the AFDL play down the Tshisekedi confrontation as unimportant claiming that there is old enmity between him and Kabila over responsibility for the assassination of the first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in 1961 (Tshisekedi was in government at the time)...