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Lumumba : a biography / by Robin McKown ; introduction by Herbert F. Weiss.

By:

McKown, Robin [author]

Contributor(s):

Weiss, Herbert F [author of introduction, etc. ]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1969]Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 202 pages ; illustrations, maps, and portraits, 22 cmSubject(s):

DDC classification:

967.5/03/0924 B 92

LOC classification:

D T663 .L8 M3 1969

Contents:

1. Congo backdrop -- 2. The formative years -- 3. Odyssey of a country boy -- 4. The rise of a postal clerk -- 5. Voyage to Belgium -- 6. A period of disgrace -- 7. Beer, politics, and Pan-Africanism -- 8. 1959 - The year of crisis -- 10. Race against time -- 11. The day of independence - June 30, 1960 -- 12. Mutiny of the force publique -- 13. Belgium intervenes and Katanga secedes -- 14. America -- 15. The double revocation -- 16. The coup of Mobtu -- 17. Flight and pursuit -- 18. Martyrdom -- 19. Journey to death. -- 20. After Lumumba.

Summary: "The life of the African leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Congo after it gained independence from Belgium." -- onlineSummary: "This is the story of an extraordinary man -- a driving, dynamo of a man who needed only a few hours a night of sleep, who made friends easily and remained fiercely loyal to them, a man who was able to hold large crowds captive with his oratory, a man who evoked both worship and loathing. It is the story of an illiterate peasant's son, largely self-educated, who became a powerful force in the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium, who was chosen his country's first Prime Minister, and whose eloquence and courage made him a figure of world renown. It is the story of a man who was martyred by the many forces at war in his new nation, a man who at the age of 35 was brutally murdered by political rivals but whose name has become a symbol of liberty throughout Africa. A man who dreamed that someday the Congo would be ruled "noy by the peace of guns and bayonets but by a peace of the heart and the will." -- book jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	D T663 .L8 M3 1969 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML20120018

Includes bibliographical references (pages. [196]-198.) and index.

"The life of the African leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Congo after it gained independence from Belgium." -- online

"This is the story of an extraordinary man -- a driving, dynamo of a man who needed only a few hours a night of sleep, who made friends easily and remained fiercely loyal to them, a man who was able to hold large crowds captive with his oratory, a man who evoked both worship and loathing. It is the story of an illiterate peasant's son, largely self-educated, who became a powerful force in the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium, who was chosen his country's first Prime Minister, and whose eloquence and courage made him a figure of world renown. It is the story of a man who was martyred by the many forces at war in his new nation, a man who at the age of 35 was brutally murdered by political rivals but whose name has become a symbol of liberty throughout Africa. A man who dreamed that someday the Congo would be ruled "noy by the peace of guns and bayonets but by a peace of the heart and the will." -- book jacket.

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