Decolonization of Africa · TURNING POINT ·
Independence of the Congo (1960)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Léopoldville — the Congo’s five days”
30 Jun 1960 — Patrice Lumumba answers the Belgian king’s condescension with a searing indictment of eighty years of rule. Within a week the army mutinies and the state comes apart.
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- Congo Crisis (chapter 6 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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