A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Lumumba, Patrice Hemery

Biography

Republic of the Congo

Birth date: 1925-07-02

Birth location: Katakokombe, Belgian Congo

Death date: 1961-01-17

Patrice Lumumba was an African nationalist leader and poet. He was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960. Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patrice-Lumumba

News Items (68)

Poetry from Africa (1963-08-02) | Poet
Troops Kill 24 in Congo: Riots Go On (1959-11-01) | Mentioned Poet
Ruanda & Congo on the Boil (1959-11-15) | Mentioned Poet
Congo Leader Forms Cabinet (1960-06-16) | Mentioned Poet
Katanga Leader Calls for 'Congo United States' (1960-07-24) | Mentioned Poet
Col. Mobutu Breaks with U. N (1960-10-23) | Mentioned Poet
Moscow Blows Hot and Cold on Co-existence (1960-12-11) | Mentioned Poet
Katanga Offers Reward (1961-02-12) | Mentioned Poet
Rebels in Katanga Clash (1961-02-19) | Mentioned Poet
Katanga Writes Off Tshombe but is Still Defiant (1961-05-14) | Mentioned Poet
Anti-British Deputy Becomes Ghana High Commissioner (1960-10-01) | Mentioned Poet
Russian Envoys Are Back in Congo (1961-12-03) | Mentioned Poet
17 Die in Clash over Gizenga (1962-01-14) | Mentioned Poet
Gizenga Must now Face the Music (1962-01-21) | Mentioned Poet
The Student 'Run' to Moscow (1962-04-22) | Mentioned Poet
Even Gagarin Can't Save Youth Festival (1962-08-05) | Mentioned Poet
Lumumba Conundrum (1962-08-12) | Mentioned Poet
Adoula controls all Congo except for Katanga (1962-10-28) | Mentioned Poet
Bright Man in Havana (1962-11-11) | Mentioned Poet
War is over in Katanga—but a new crisis starts (1963-01-20) | Mentioned Poet
'Saviour' Tshombe may help himself to power (1964-06-28) | Mentioned Poet
The Sick Mind of China (1965-10-31) | Mentioned Poet
The 14 nuns of Julian Amery (1966-03-06) | Mentioned Poet
The Lost Heroes (1967-01-22) | Mentioned Poet
Patrice Lumumba (1967-01-29) | Mentioned Poet
Tshombe: the big double-cross (1967-07-09) | Mentioned Poet
Lumumba Stamp (1961-05-31) | Mentioned Poet
Provocative view of Hammarskjold (1976-07-18) | Mentioned Poet
The Week Ahead (1985-06-30) | Mentioned Poet
We're sorry, say Russians (1961-03-02) | Mentioned Poet
Big Assembly Victory For Mr. Lumumba (1960-06-22) | Mentioned Poet
Little Women in Africa (1999-02-28) | Mentioned Poet
Indomitable spirit (1975-04-27) | Mentioned Poet
Points (1987-11-15) | Mentioned Poet
Coming in from the cold (1993-09-12) | Mentioned Poet
A Legend in the Making (2003-10-05) | Mentioned Poet
The most hated African in Africa (1967-07-23) | Mentioned Poet
The daddy of them all (2004-01-04) | Mentioned Poet
Human vultures move into rotten heart of Zaire (1997-03-30) | Mentioned Poet
Not playing the game (2003-02-09) | Mentioned Poet
Che's secret war (2000-08-13) | Mentioned Poet
Rocky ducks questions on Cia role in death plans (1975-06-08) | Mentioned Poet
Full Marx for seafood (1988-05-15) | Mentioned Poet
I Come to Bury Césaire (2013-07-21) | Mentioned Poet
Book It Now (2013-01-13) | Mentioned Poet
Triumph of the old guerrilla network (1997-05-11) | Mentioned Poet
Obituaries (2009-01-04) | Mentioned Poet
The clouds of official unknowing (1987-11-01) | Mentioned Poet
New voice from Africa (1969-10-29) | Mentioned Poet
Bush turns a blind eye to the wars he doesn't want to fight (2003-04-13) | Mentioned Poet
From the knives of the Congo to darkest Pentagon (1987-11-08) | Mentioned Poet
Land of Sorrows (2002-07-07) | Mentioned Poet
Handshake spells hope for Congo (1960-06-21) | Mentioned Poet
Also Showing (2009-07-12) | Mentioned Poet
Crimes and Passion (2003-08-17) | Mentioned Poet
Congo Head Of State (1960-06-25) | Mentioned Poet
1945 and all that (1971-10-31) | Mentioned Poet
Hard to Swallow (2016-08-28) | Mentioned Poet
Let Tintin the Racist Speak (2007-07-15) | Mentioned Poet
The Demise of a Super-Salesman (1974-12-22) | Mentioned Poet
Film check (1994-01-16) | Mentioned Poet
Zaire: now the big showdown (1977-04-17) | Mentioned Poet
The Impetuous West Will Blink First in Libya (2011-07-24) | Mentioned Poet
Who gave the orders to the President's assassins? (1975-11-23) | Mentioned Poet
Killing Castro (1997-11-16) | Mentioned Poet
BBC1 (2001-07-08) | Mentioned Poet
Africa 1: CIA lets the Cubans in (1978-05-28) | Mentioned Poet
A blaze of light on Auden (1963-12-08) | Mentioned Poet

Related Works (2)

Poems from Black Africa (1963) (Poet)
Leopold Sedar Senghor (1963) (Mentioned Poet)

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