On this day in history, one of Africa’s most vocal critics of colonialism, and imperialism was born
On this day in history, one of Africa’s most vocal critics of colonialism, anticolonial leader, Pan-Africanist and the first Prime Minister of the newly Independent Congo at the age of thirty-five, Patrice Emery Lumumba, was born in 1925 in Onalua in the Katakokombe region of the Kasai province of the Belgian Congo.