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Patrice Lumumba on the Congo’s Independence: “Our Wounds Are Too Fresh and Too Painful”
Sixty years ago today, the Congo won its independence from Belgian rule. The country’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was planning to speak at a formal ceremony in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). First, however, he had to listen to a speech by the Belgian…