TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nzongola-Ntalaja,Georges
TI  - Patrice Lumumba
T2  - Ohio Short Histories of Africa
SN  - 9780821445068
AV  - DT657 .P387 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens, OH
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Lumumba, Patrice,
KW  - Prime ministers
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1960-1965
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1908-1960
KW  - Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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