Lumumba’s remains return home to find rest at last
Sixty years after independent Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was murdered and dissolved in acid, his teeth, kept as a trophy in Belgium, will be returned to Africa.
Patrice Lumumba
From the Archive | Speech at the proclamation of the Congo’s independence
On 30 June 1960, the first Congolese Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, stood up and addressed not the assembled politicians nor the nervous Belgian elite, but rather his newly liberated people.