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The Assassination of Lumumba

by Ludo De Witte - £14.99  Verso Books (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781839767906 | ISBN 10: 1839767901

Re-issue of a classic investigation into the CIA and Belgian state plot in the Congo. The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba—the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity—since it perpetration.
 
Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA.
 
Patrice Lumumba’s personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics.

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