How The Soviet Union Helped Patrice Lumumba
Eager to act quickly and the world had turned its back against him, Patrice Lumumba ran to the Soviet Union for help. It was the Soviet Union who gave a listening ear to Lumumba.
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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.
