PATRICE LUMUMBA

Hero of the independence, Patrice Lumumba is also a tragic face of the African nationalism. The extent of his/her/its famous leash hardly to guess that he/it only died to 36 years, after six years of militancy and six months of power.

The engagement of this employee of the stations expresses itself since 1958, when starts itself the wave of the decolonizations. With a group of "evolved", he/it asks for the immediate independence of his/her/its country. Some months later, he/it actively participates in the creation of the Congolese national Movement, nationalistic party and relay of the Pan-African theses that plead for the unit of the continent.

His/her/its personality imposes it to the head of the first Congolese government. Hardly installed, the boiling Prime minister braves the etiquettes while recalling before king Baudouin the sufferings of the Congolese people under the colonial era.

He/it is taken away by the events that shake the country. His/her/its demand of a soviet intervention to repress the secession katangaise provokes the rupture with Kasavubu. Most his/her/its friends of yesterday turn against him. Colonel Mobutu, who returns is himself autoproclamé chief of the national army, makes stop Lumumba, that stood under the protection of the blue helmets of the UNO. jailed Briefly, he is transferred to the Katanga. It is there that he/it is murdered in February 1961 in circumstances for which a commission of Belgian parliamentary investigation concluded in 2001 to a responsibility moral of Belgium recognized by ministerial apologies.