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Lumumba

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Lu·mum·ba  (l-mmb), Patrice Emergy 1925-1961.
First prime minister (1960-1961) of the Congo (later Zaire). He was ousted and murdered in 1961 by secessionists from Shaba.

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49) The establishment of these networks was apparent right from the magazine's first few issues, when it relied on the contacts of Du Bois, Graham, and Hunton to ganer such contributors as former Congolese foreign minister Antoine Gizenga, and Ghanaian president, Kwame Nkrumah, following Congo's CIA-orchestrated assassination of Patrice Lumumba in 1961.
In July 1960, Congo's Katanga province, under the leadership of anti-communist Moise Tshombe, broke away from the pro-communist Congolese regime of Patrice Lumumba.
Woode (1983) notes that, "Some artists were instructed to make works on Marx, the death of Lumumba and murals of men in bondage breaking their chains.
 
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