When he disembarked from the Air Congo DC-04 at Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) on 17 January 1961, shortly before 5 pm, Patrice Emery Lumumba was already in agony. During the entire flight from ...

The speech in June 1960 marked the brief high point of Lumumba's meteoric journey, which ended just six months later on January 17, 1961. Toppled from power, humiliated and tortured, Lumumba was ...

In a heartfelt, emotional speech, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba gave the annual "State of the City" address Thursday evening at The Ice House venue in Downtown Jackson. Several times during the mayor's ...

After winning a second term on June 8, Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba cemented his administration’s return to power in his Oct. 26 State of the City speech, during which time the mayor touched on various ...

Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first-elected, left-wing Prime Minister, is remembered around the world as an icon of African independence, but is legacy is more complicated at home. However, on the tree ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a heartfelt, emotional speech, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba gave the annual "State of the City" address Thursday evening at The ...

Seen here in 1960, Patrice Lumumba had two and half months as prime minister before being ousted and executed in January 1961. [AFP] When the Democratic Republic of Congo celebrates 60 years of ...