The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and ...

Two years ago, the 60th anniversary of Congo’s independence reignited calls to put Lumumba’s soul to rest. Protesters gathered outside the Belgian Embassy in Kinshasa, seeking restitution of ...

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice ... The return of Lumumba’s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

So swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence ... were resigned to an offer of full independence for the Congolese this year.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice ... s tooth from former colonizer Belgium in 2022 had been celebrated around Congo ...