Tag: Patrice Lumumba

Lumumba’s tooth and toothless UN, By Owei Lakemfa

Sep 19, 2020

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by

Olaotan Falade

in Columnist, Editor’s Pick

By Owei Lakemfa PATRICE Lumumba, a postal worker, was 34 when he won election as Prime Minister to lead the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC to its June 30, 1960 independence. He made a powerful speech at the independence celebrations denouncing the barbaric colonisation of the DRC which led to the massacre of…