Gerard, E.

Death in the Congo : murdering Patrice Lumumba / Emmanuel Gerard, Bruce Kuklick. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps - De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Congo of the Belgians -- Independence -- The empire strikes back -- The Cold War comes to Africa -- Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN -- The government falls -- Mobutu -- Africans against Lumumba -- The Central Intelligence Agency -- The return of the Belgians -- Lumumba imperiled -- Killing Lumumba -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on sources.

More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people--black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American--bear responsibility for this crime.



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Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961 --Assassination.
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961.


United Nations--Congo (Democratic Republic)


Africa.
Assassination.
Culture and History of non-European Territories.
Diplomatic relations.
History.
Political science.
Geschichte Afrikas.


Electronic Books.

DT658 / .D438 2015