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Lumumba Patrice . 1925--61, Congolese statesman; first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (1960); assassinated How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 49) The establishment of these networks was apparent right from the magazine's first few issues, when it relied on the contacts of Du Bois, Graham, and Hunton to ganer such contributors as former Congolese foreign minister Antoine Gizenga, and Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, following Congo's CIA-orchestrated assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961. In July 1960, Congo's Katanga province, under the leadership of anti-communist Moise Tshombe, broke away from the pro-communist Congolese regime of Patrice Lumumba. Woode (1983) notes that, "Some artists were instructed to make works on Marx, the death of Lumumba and murals of men in bondage breaking their chains. |
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