Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. <br/><br/>
Patrice Lumumba 

 - Athens, OH :  Ohio University Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (165 pages). 
 - Ohio Short Histories of Africa .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction; 1: Early Years, Youth, and Formal Education, 1925-44; 2: Civil Service Career and Political Apprenticeship in Kisangani,1944-56; 3: Years of Transition, 1956-58; 4: The Struggle for Independence,1958-60; 5: The Short Political Life of Congo'sFirst Prime Minister, 1960-61; 6: Lumumba and the Counterrevolution in Centraland Southern Africa; 7: Lumumba's Assassination; 8: The Political Legacyof Patrice Lumumba; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
<br/><br/> Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister. After a meteoric rise in the colonial civil service and the African political elite, he became a major figure in the decolonization movement of the 1950s. Lumumba's short tenure as prime minister (1960-1961) was marked by an uncompromising defense of Congolese national interests against pressure from international mining companies and the Western governments that orchestrated his eventual demise. Cold war geopol. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821445068 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prime ministers--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Biography.<br/>Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.<br/>Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1908-1960.<br/>Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961.<br/>Prime ministers--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT657  / .P387 2014