Decolonization of Africa · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1961)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “The murder of Lumumba”
17 Jan 1961 — Congo’s first elected premier, handed to his Katangese enemies with Belgian and CIA connivance, is shot and his body destroyed. Belgium apologized in 2001. A founding crime of the post-colonial age. Remember him.
- When
- Type
- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Congo Crisis (chapter 6 of Decolonization of Africa)
- Atlas
- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
- Also in
- Cold War
Chapter 6 is part of membership. WW2 is free — every chapter. Try chapters 1–2 of any 2 other atlases (3 with a free account). Opening a new atlas uses one of them. Membership opens all 21 — Join.
Free printable Decolonization of Africa study guide, sent by email ↓
In the same chapter
Related
THE FREE PRINTABLE STUDY GUIDE
Join the Dispatch — a short welcome series, then a letter when a new atlas opens — and the printable study guide for The Decolonization of Africa is yours now, free.
NO TRACKING · YOUR ADDRESS IS USED FOR THE DISPATCH AND NOTHING ELSE · UNSUBSCRIBE ANYTIME