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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — The Congo Crisis in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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