Patrice Lumumba (Voices of Liberation)

This book is part of a unique series that presents the reader with the original writings and relevant source texts of liberation heroes of Africa, together with a coherent contextual framework and analysis of their legacy.
CONTENTS:

• HIS LIFE.
• Introduction.
• Lumumba's Early Life.
• Plunder and Pillage.
• Colonial Contradictions.
• Léopoldville: Growing Radicalisml
• Towards Independence.
• Building the Party.
• Detention and Round Tables.
• Political Elimination.
• Independence: 30 June 1960.
• Class and Ethnicity.
• Real Independence?
• The UN in the Congo.
• An Unlikely Revolutionary.
• Tshombe and Kalonji's Fiefdom
• External Forces.
• The Fall of Lumumba.
• Assassination.
• United States' Interests in the Region.
• Moderate Pan-Africanism and False Friends.
• HIS VOICE.
• Speech at the Accra Conference.
• Speech at Léopoldville.
• From Prison to the Round Table.
• Speech at Accra.
• Independence Day Speech.
• Speech at Stanleyville.
• Address to the Soldiers of Stanleyville.
• Speech at Léopoldville.
• Press Conference at Léopoldville.
• Speech Opening the Pan-African Conference at Léopoldville.
• National Radio Broadcast.
• Speech at Session of Parliament: The Affair of Russia.
• Lumumba's Last Recorded Message.
• Congo, My Country.
• OTHER VOICES.
• Three Letters from President Nkrumah to Patrice Lumumba.
• The Undertaking by Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Lumumba's Death: Could We Do Otherwise? By Frantz Fanon.
• Poem by Sabarsantoso Anantaguna.
• "Children of Violence": An Interview with Juliana Lumumba.
• Anti-Imperialism and Resistance in the Congo: An Interview with Ludo de Witte.
• HIS LEGACY.
• After Lumumba: Congo’s Recent History.
• Postscript.