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.