Patrice Lumumba
compiled by Leo Zeilig | | ISBN: 978-0-7969-2425-4 $24.95 |
2014/199 pages
Voices of Liberation
Distributed for HSRC Press
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DESCRIPTION
This book is part of a unique series that presents the reader with the original writings and relevant source texts of liberation heroes of Africa, together with a coherent contextual framework and analysis of their legacy.
CONTENTS
- HIS LIFE.
- Introduction.
- Lumumba's Early Life.
- Plunder and Pillage.
- Colonial Contradictions.
- Léopoldville: Growing Radicalisml
- Towards Independence.
- Building the Party.
- Detention and Round Tables.
- Political Elimination.
- Independence: 30 June 1960.
- Class and Ethnicity.
- Real Independence?
- The UN in the Congo.
- An Unlikely Revolutionary.
- Tshombe and Kalonji's Fiefdom
- External Forces.
- The Fall of Lumumba.
- Assassination.
- United States' Interests in the Region.
- Moderate Pan-Africanism and False Friends.
- HIS VOICE.
- Speech at the Accra Conference.
- Speech at Léopoldville.
- From Prison to the Round Table.
- Speech at Accra.
- Independence Day Speech.
- Speech at Stanleyville.
- Address to the Soldiers of Stanleyville.
- Speech at Léopoldville.
- Press Conference at Léopoldville.
- Speech Opening the Pan-African Conference at Léopoldville.
- National Radio Broadcast.
- Speech at Session of Parliament: The Affair of Russia.
- Lumumba's Last Recorded Message.
- Congo, My Country.
- OTHER VOICES.
- Three Letters from President Nkrumah to Patrice Lumumba.
- The Undertaking by Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Lumumba's Death: Could We Do Otherwise? By Frantz Fanon.
- Poem by Sabarsantoso Anantaguna.
- "Children of Violence": An Interview with Juliana Lumumba.
- Anti-Imperialism and Resistance in the Congo: An Interview with Ludo de Witte.
- HIS LEGACY.
- After Lumumba: Congo’s Recent History.
- Postscript.
