Tribute to Patrice Emery Lumumba

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Ne have known the ironies, the insults, the blows that we had to suffer morning, noon and night because we were negroes ”“ We are going to show the world what the black man can do when he works in freedom. "Without dignity there is no freedom, without justice there is no freedom, and without independence there are no free men". "History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that we will teach in Brussels, Washington, Paris or at the United Nations, but it is the one that we will teach in countries freed from colonialism and its puppets ”. "Africa will write its own history and it will be, north and south in the Sahara, a history of glory and dignity".

Here are some quotes from the last letter written by Patrice Lumumba to his wife. This man whose name is among the first pan-Africanist leaders was also the first head of government of the current DRC in 1960 after its independence. His misfortune was the wish to want the happiness of his young country, and of Africa in general.

30 June 1960, while Congo applauded the official ceremony of independence under the yoke of Belgians, Lumumba took the floor to deliver a speech that will mark the world. In this short moment, one has felt immense pride in the figures of some and great bitterness on the mines of some. This day, the program jostled by the intrusion of the words of Patrice Lumumba, ended with the principles of "politically correct". The Belgian king, enraged and humiliated because he was challenged by a negro, nevertheless squeezed his hands with ebony, considered as "movable property". All this of course, made up by hypocritical smiles and loud applause.

PATRICE LUMUMBA: SPEECHES, LETTERS, TEXTS

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Is Adult Product
Release Date	2010-08-31T00:00:01Z
Language	French
Number Of Pages	208
Publication Date	2010-08-31T00:00:01Z