Patrice Lumumba remains far more than just a national icon of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo); his legacy has ...

Lumumba remains a leading figure in Congolese and African history. He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose ...

J uly 1960 was an inopportune time for Patrice Lumumba, the barely 35-year-old prime minister of the Congo, to visit Washington, D.C. His country had become independent from Belgium only on June 30.

For Juliana Lumumba, he was not just a politician: Patrice Lumumba was her father. That's why she continues to demand the truth about an assassination for which no one has faced justice.

News about Patrice Lumumba, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, hands bound, sits in the bed of an army truck under guard of Congolese soldiers on Dec. 2, 1960, one day after his arrest by troops loyal to Col. Joseph ...

The murder of Patrice Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister and the subject of a new book, had lasting psychological effects on the whole continent.

Patrice Lumumba had his body dissolved in acid in 1961, and his gold-capped tooth - his only remains - was kept in Belgium ...

Patrice Lumumba was an inspirational hero to millions of his countrymen. In the eyes of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, the Congolese nationalist was erratic, inept, and “an ignorant ...

Isaac Chotiner reviews “The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination,” by Stuart A. Reid.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It's not immediately clear ...