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Patrice Lumumba

July 2022

  • A hair salon in the city of Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    The big picture
    The big picture: the persistence of normality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Finbarr O’Reilly’s shot of a hair salon in Ituri province documents the continuation of everyday life in one of the world’s most fractured communities

June 2022

  • Guards of honour carry a coffin containing a tooth of Patrice Lumumba

    DRC buries independence hero Patrice Lumumba’s tooth, his only remains

    Coffin containing tooth is buried in ceremony on 62nd anniversary of DRC’s independence
  • Roland Lumumba, a son of Patrice Lumumba, walks by a banner bearing a photo of his late father, in Brussels.

    Belgium returns Patrice Lumumba’s tooth to family 61 years after his murder

    Congolese independence hero’s gold-capped tooth handed over as ex-colonial power faces its bloody past
  • Soldiers guard Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the DRC, on 1 December 1960. He was murdered in Katanga province on 17 January 1961.

    Belgium to return Patrice Lumumba’s gold tooth in bid to atone for colonial crimes

    Relic of the murdered Republic of Congo leader will be returned to his family as Brussels confronts its bloody past in Africa

September 2020

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    Belgium must return tooth of murdered Congolese leader, judge rules

    Belgian policeman had admitted taking tooth from Patrice Lumumba’s body in 1961

July 2020

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    Belgium mulls charges over 1961 killing of Congo's first elected leader

    Prosecutors say there are two living suspects allegedly linked to assassination of Patrice Lumumba

June 2018

  • Hay Festival Of Literature And The Arts -2014<br>HAY-ON-WYE, WALES - MAY 28: Maeve Magee, 3, reads a book during the Hay Festival on May 28, 2014 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. The Hay Festival is an annual festival of literature and arts which began in 1988. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

    Books to give us hope: Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson, Rose McGowan and more share their picks

    This week at Hay festival, writers, artists and thinkers have been discussing the world we live in today. How do we stay positive and fight for change? Here they reveal the books that give them hope

March 2016

  • Fred Bauma, left, and Yves Makwambala, who have been imprisoned for more than a year without a trial.

    Guardian Africa network
    Congolese activists on hunger strike after court refuses release

    Fred Bauma and Yves Makwambala among dozens of DRC youth group members in prison for demanding democratic change

June 2013

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    Chiwetel Ejiofor: 'In theatre the fear lurks all the time'

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor in Congo

    Chiwetel Ejiofor and Joe Wright in the Congo – in pictures

May 2013

  • Tristan and Yseult

    Summer arts preview 2013
    The best theatre for summer 2013

    Michael Billington and Lyn Gardner: At the Young Vic, Chiwetel Ejiofor is Patrice Lumumba in Aimé Césaire's play about the Congo leader. Elsewhere Michael Morpurgo's versions of Aesop's fables are staged in the open and Richard Eyre directs a new version of Pirandello's Liolà

April 2013

  • Patrice Lumumba Congo prime minister

    MI6 'arranged Cold War killing' of Congo prime minister

    Claims over Patrice Lumumba's 1961 assassination made by Labour peer in letter to London Review of Books

October 2012

  • Joe Wright

    Atonement and Anna Karenina film director Joe Wright takes to the stage

    Wright's life of Congolese rebel leader Patrice Lumumba is among highlights of Young Vic's 2013 season in London

January 2011

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    Poverty matters blog
    Africa: a continent drenched in the blood of revolutionary heroes

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    Poverty matters blog
    Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century

July 2010

  • In praise of… Patrice Lumumba

    Editorial: Of all the deaths in Congo's terrible history, Lumumba's is the best remembered

September 2002

  • Fury at Kenny 'joke' spreads

  • 'Kenny said sorry, but not to me'

February 2002

  • World dispatch
    Belgium faces up to its bloody past

    Forty one years after the event, Belgium has finally apologised for its role in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, an icon of the Left and Africa's most promising post-colonial leader, writes Andrew Osborn

November 2001

  • Belgium blamed for icon's murder

    Belgian government ministers bore "moral responsibility" for events leading to the murder of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961, a parliamentary inquiry found yesterday.
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