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Patrice Émery Lumumba

Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo). . Lumumba’s tribe was the Batetela (Tetela) which is a dynamic branch of the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central Congo [1]. He grew up in a mud-brick house. The Congo was a colony of Belgium and, as such, he attended both Protestant and Catholic schools run by white Belgian missionaries. Lumumba was intelligent and used to ask too many problematic questions [2].

Lumumba was ambitious and aimed for social mobility, predominantly to form part of the “evolue”, the upper strata of the middle class; the highest-level indigenous Congolese could attain in the Belgian colony [3]. His first employment was at the Postal Office as a postal clerk in Stanleyville City in 1954.However, Lumumba was accused of embezzlement and was jailed in 1955. Due to an extensive interview with King Baudouin, when he visited the Congo in 1955, Lumumba’s sentence was reduced in 1956

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Introduction

The drive for independence in the Belgian Congo began in earnest during the 1950s with the independence of neighboring territories and the formation of a number of Congolese political groups, including ABAKO, BALUBAKAT, and CONACAT. Most of these groups were based upon regional and/or tribal and cultural affiliation, but an exception to this was the Mouvement National Congolais (MNC), a national party whose leadership included Patrice Lumumba. All of these groups sought independence from Belgium, but they were divided over whether the new nation should form a central or federalist government. Belgium granted full independence on June 30, 1960, and set the stage for elections in May.

During the pre-independence period, the Eisenhower administration grew increasingly wary of the potential for Communist-bloc interference in the election process and the new government. The administration was particularly concerned about Lumumba, who it viewed as harboring pro-Communist sentiments. Since Lumumba enjoyed broad national support in the Congo, the administration feared he po

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Patrice Lumumba

First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (June - September 1960), b. 2 July 1925 (Onalua, Belgian Congo), d. January 1961 (Katanga, Congo)

Patrice Lumumba was born in a village of the Kasai province of the Congo (today's Zaire). He received his early education in a Protestant mission school. He found work as a postal clerk in Léopoldville (today's Kinshasa) and moved on to Stanleyville (today's Kisangani) to become an accountant for the post office. At the same time he wrote essays and poems for the Congolese press.

Lumumba's early interest in public affairs was a period of development. He joined the club of the "evoluées" (the "educated Africans"). He applied for and was admitted to full Belgian citizenship. By the time he had reached the age of 30 his outlook had become more African; in 1955 he became president of a trade union of government employees that was not affiliated to a Belgian trade union body but was a true Congolese trade union.

In 1956 the Minister of the Colonies invited Lumumba to join a s