• Pedro Monaville

Pedro Monaville selects key texts that helped shape a new book on Congolese student-driven left nationalism in the aftermath of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination.

• Pedro Monaville

Jacques Bongoma was a young Congolese progressive who became a close advisor to Joseph Mobutu after the country’s 1965 coup.

• Daniel Tödt

German historian Daniel Tödt wrote a history of the Congolese évolués. In this interview, he talks about the historiographical interventions of his book and the role of Patrice Lumumba in the history of évolués.

• Ira Dworkin

The return of Patrice Lumumba’s remains must not be an occasion for Belgium to congratulate itself, but for a full accounting of the colonial violence that led to the assassination and coverup.

• Pedro Monaville

Patrice Lumumba became a martyr of African independence. But what are Lumumba's "political afterlives" nearly sixty years later?

• Sean Jacobs

"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity" (Lumumba, 1960)

• Marissa Moorman

António Oliveira Salazar founded Portugal’s New State dictatorship in 1933. Some Portuguese still remember him fondly.

• Nganji Laeh

Creating spaces where artists related to the Congolese diaspora can freely tell their side of the story.

• Orlando Reade

The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.

• Harry Stopes

When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.

• Allison Swank

Anyone who knows anything about Cold War politics, knows the CIA had a hand in Lumumba's murder. The only difference now is that it's been proven.

• Tom Devriendt

A graphic novel written and illustrated by a group of Congolese graphic artists, take stock of a half-century of independence for the DRC.