Kwame Nkrumah: The Showtime President Of The Independent Nation Of Ghana

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2RG1IUenq8jBepH4sSptZ-iYgHfOL2BkffbgbLimKs2tvLJ928VIjPHTTRICxmuSNdHZBfmUZAB8Q75LnFF5Lyq1m8XZXY2CLov6auzh9I88hG_GezJIdq4L9SmPuONkGDo6noIxrBg4/s1600/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2RG1IUenq8jBepH4sSptZ-iYgHfOL2BkffbgbLimKs2tvLJ928VIjPHTTRICxmuSNdHZBfmUZAB8Q75LnFF5Lyq1m8XZXY2CLov6auzh9I88hG_GezJIdq4L9SmPuONkGDo6noIxrBg4/s200/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah (born: September 21, 1909 - died: Apr 27, 1972).</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">First President of Republic of Ghana in addition to a founding fellow member of the Organization of African Unity.</span></b></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Kwame Nkrumah was born September 21, 1909 at Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana). He was originally named subsequently Francis Nwia-Kofi, an honored family personality. Son of goldsmith Kofi Ngonloma of the Asona Clan in addition to Elizabeth Nyanibah of the Anona Clan, Nkrumah showed an early on thirst for education. In 1930, Nkrumah completed studies at the acclaimed Prince of Wales’ Achimota School inwards Accra. doc Kwegyir Aggrey, Assistant Vice Principal in addition to the commencement African staff fellow member at the college, became his mentor.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Kwame Nkrumah U.S. Studies</b><br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1935, Nkrumah undertook advance studies in the United States at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. In 1939,  he earned an BA in Economics in addition to Sociology. By 1942, he earned an BA in Theology. By 1943, Nkrumah had earned an M.Sc. (Education), an MA (Philosophy), in addition to completed course of written report operate for a Ph. D. bird at the University of Pennsylvania. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> During his U.S. undergraduate studies, Nkrumah also pledged the predominately African-American Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, an academic honour society. He is said to accept introduced African traditional steps to the fraternity's stepping tradition, including <a href="http://students.washington.edu/pbskl/step.htm">cane stepping</a>.  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Kwame Nkrumah Organizes Pan-Africans inwards Europe</b><br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Arriving inwards London inwards May of 1945, Nkrumah organized the fifth Pan-African Congress inwards Manchester, England in addition to began networking through organizations similar the West African Students' Union, where he served every bit vice-president. This same twelvemonth he officially changed his cite from Francis Nwia-Kofi to Kwame Nkrumah.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdJjevNEzUFUwirKS-zLMf_GRkQwejuDB8dlz_iU4vJ43d2CswfwVXJcfUYmyg5sJz0UmVuioKuirO6-_56yaZba78idtC_PP7SttOpCIaTc6_stFZOVo6LDJ5tWbOLUrxKDDfeRiEJw/s1600/GHANA.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdJjevNEzUFUwirKS-zLMf_GRkQwejuDB8dlz_iU4vJ43d2CswfwVXJcfUYmyg5sJz0UmVuioKuirO6-_56yaZba78idtC_PP7SttOpCIaTc6_stFZOVo6LDJ5tWbOLUrxKDDfeRiEJw/s320/GHANA.gif" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Image of the West African patch of Ghana</b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By Dec 1947, Nkrumah had returned to his homeland every bit a teacher, scholar, in addition to political activist. He became General Secretary of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), which explored strategies for gaining independence from colonial England. Under Nkrumah's leadership, the UGCC attracted local political support from farmers in addition to women. Women did non have the correct to vote in many traditional patriarchial societies in addition to farmers who were non land-owners also did non accept the suffrage. In 1948, Accra, Kumasi, in addition to other areas of the Gold Coast were experiencing full general social unrest, which the British colonial regime accredited to the UGCC. By 1949, Nkrumah had galvanized broad back upwards in addition to reorganized his efforts under the Convention People's Party (CPP). </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Kwame Nkrumah advocated for constitutional changes. This included self-government, universal franchise without holding qualifications, in addition to a split upwards solid of chiefs. Jailed past times the colonial direction inwards 1950 for his political activism, the CPP's 1951 election sweep was followed past times Nkrumah's release. <span class="st"><br /></span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsXDACRuB0qf-ZGxe9u52VTKaAqOfQ4p-gtwYH4sECHMC4zDIhDbcShPByBAzRT8QAbPwIIaKB32gyi27MZaw21Rg1xPRD8EiysSc2HtlWq6rbtyWUxrjbHpY60a5KRVi4nj-kVICttM/s1600/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+and+Dr.+Martin+Luther+King,+Jr..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="341" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidsXDACRuB0qf-ZGxe9u52VTKaAqOfQ4p-gtwYH4sECHMC4zDIhDbcShPByBAzRT8QAbPwIIaKB32gyi27MZaw21Rg1xPRD8EiysSc2HtlWq6rbtyWUxrjbHpY60a5KRVi4nj-kVICttM/s320/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+and+Dr.+Martin+Luther+King,+Jr..jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Kwame Nkrumah in addition to doc Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> H5N1 devout Pan-Africanist, Nkrumah supported African federation nether the auspices of the U.S.A. of African. He also had meaningful dialogue with African intellectuals from the diaspora, including W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., in addition to <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=marcus-garvey">Marcus Mosiah Garvey</a>. He also corresponded alongside Trinidadian C.L.R. James, whom he credited alongside teaching him how an "underground receive worked." Nkrumah played a pivotal work inwards developing the Organization of African Unity (OAU) inwards 1963, the same twelvemonth he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.<br /> <a name='more'></a><br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtMwxwM4N9TBEIO94ghJOa8bsH6d1pWYcKDfh2WRFZSz4JEh7R1THk8bL1pzsW1uUNwlBJo5EY-WYjq6r4RxbI6yr50yee9fswwtDR-oj2TyMmj3uj4e0rIZCzHFMdvBk37IF2sUVjQs/s1600/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Hall+in+Dar+Es+Salaam+Tanzania.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtMwxwM4N9TBEIO94ghJOa8bsH6d1pWYcKDfh2WRFZSz4JEh7R1THk8bL1pzsW1uUNwlBJo5EY-WYjq6r4RxbI6yr50yee9fswwtDR-oj2TyMmj3uj4e0rIZCzHFMdvBk37IF2sUVjQs/s320/Photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Hall+in+Dar+Es+Salaam+Tanzania.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Nkrumah Hall at the University of Dar es Salaam </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania</span></b></div> <br /> <b>President of Republic of Ghana inwards West Africa</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Republic of Ghana was declared an independent nation from British colonization on March 6, 1957.<span class="st"></span> By 1964, Republic of Ghana was operating every bit a one-party nation alongside Kwame Nkrumah every bit it's commencement President in addition to Prime Minister -- alongside a life term of office. Nkrumah is oftentimes criticized for developing non-participatory governance subsequently independence inwards Ghana. By 1966, the Ghanaian armed forces overthrew Nkrumah's administration. Nkrumah died inwards exile on Apr 27, 1972 inwards Bucharest, Romania.<br />   </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM99FFU7iEhDmwCogOMioAhPe3WF5le9A5913_LSX8INcXDG0PQ_uAvklTl-phMLX__6wXEvng_2ojH2TF_rrb3tDscAKddPgA9r79-ekTvEpuM3x870E1uaS0IvLOOKialsc3uNOYyLs/s1600/photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Mausoleum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM99FFU7iEhDmwCogOMioAhPe3WF5le9A5913_LSX8INcXDG0PQ_uAvklTl-phMLX__6wXEvng_2ojH2TF_rrb3tDscAKddPgA9r79-ekTvEpuM3x870E1uaS0IvLOOKialsc3uNOYyLs/s320/photo+of+Kwame+Nkrumah+Mausoleum.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in addition to Memorial Park is located </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in downtown Accra, the upper-case alphabetic quality of Ghana</span></b></div> <br /> Here is a video dedicated to Kwame Nkrumah past times Ghana's really ain participant Obrafour:<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gMih2TddFdQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gMih2TddFdQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div> </div>

Kwame Nkrumah: The Showtime President Of The Independent Nation Of Ghana

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Patrice Émery Lumumba: Get-Go Prime Number Government Minister Of The Congo

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_inb4FHimPoXhKLb9kE8WLFmusgzfRsxOVWUmm3meiF2Uo7OyxUXYiQR7dE7-pkH_Zz8m2FHzVXNj5Y0nub64fi_OtcXwiQsKmMRW0p0IDKuzVWqnhL2E_bf0bb-32sCJesoJVFijY6E/s1600/Photo+of+Patrice+Lumumba2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_inb4FHimPoXhKLb9kE8WLFmusgzfRsxOVWUmm3meiF2Uo7OyxUXYiQR7dE7-pkH_Zz8m2FHzVXNj5Y0nub64fi_OtcXwiQsKmMRW0p0IDKuzVWqnhL2E_bf0bb-32sCJesoJVFijY6E/s1600/Photo+of+Patrice+Lumumba2.jpg" width="269" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>Photo of Patrice Émery Lumumba </b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>(July 2, 1925– Jan 17, 1961)</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Patrice Émery Lumumba (aka Patrice Hemery Lumumba) was born July 2, 1925 inward Onalua, Katakokombe, Kasai Province inward what is at i time the Democratic Republic of the Congo. One of 4 sons, Lumumba was a fellow member of the Tetela tribal group. His teaching included missionary schoolhouse training. After completing his education, he passed the postal clerk examination too began to go inward Kinshasa (then Léopoldville). In 1951, Lumumba married Pauline Opangu too they would become on to bring 5 children: François, Patrice Junior, Julienne, Roland too Guy-Patrice Lumumba.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvoWQqBmpHv6Xmo_tskn6O5YV0B1rfJLsI_LIcG1Ak16_UQt92bc0d-rVH2lorVpBxggoRjDrlfVI3bSQjet5J5oy7xdgIhfZdnx5otR10gBxzGxFyrcXNiyZ8N1bIozUl9DKPbxiOLec/s1600/Image+of+Patrice+Lumumba2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvoWQqBmpHv6Xmo_tskn6O5YV0B1rfJLsI_LIcG1Ak16_UQt92bc0d-rVH2lorVpBxggoRjDrlfVI3bSQjet5J5oy7xdgIhfZdnx5otR10gBxzGxFyrcXNiyZ8N1bIozUl9DKPbxiOLec/s1600/Image+of+Patrice+Lumumba2.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of a youthful Patrice Lumumba inward the Belgian-Congo</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> By 1955, Lumumba began to acquire into political life. He became a regional leader for the Cercles of Stanleyville too joined the Liberal Party of Kingdom of Belgium where he served every bit editor too distributor of information. While traveling inward Kingdom of Belgium that same year, Lumumba was arrested past times the colonial authorities constabulary too charged amongst embezzling postal service role funds. In July 1956, Lumumba was released after serving 12 months of a two-year sentence. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> By 1958, Lumumba had re-entered political life too began to organize for Mouvement National Congolais (MNC). In Dec 1958, he represented the MNC every bit president at the All-African Peoples' Conference held inward Accra, Ghana, hosted past times Ghanaian President <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=kwame-nkrumah">Kwame Nkrumah</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba too the Congo-Brazzaville </b><br /> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mbGUnGFD_zuSHpHfAWtYQbkQ28PDYdaog6EAN1pMYfPWm4oafBePSQvPa1IHVUiEHfaq0JXYVrCJC_2C5XUPU2awSpzUMrOJDUy0kYfbAuljfivBhrrhLN9UcUVadkdiyP1KfX14M8E/s1600/Patrice+Lumumba+was+captured+by+the+army+chief+Mobutu+and+handed+over+to+Tshombe+in+Katanga+Province.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mbGUnGFD_zuSHpHfAWtYQbkQ28PDYdaog6EAN1pMYfPWm4oafBePSQvPa1IHVUiEHfaq0JXYVrCJC_2C5XUPU2awSpzUMrOJDUy0kYfbAuljfivBhrrhLN9UcUVadkdiyP1KfX14M8E/s320/Patrice+Lumumba+was+captured+by+the+army+chief+Mobutu+and+handed+over+to+Tshombe+in+Katanga+Province.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> By Oct 1959, Lumumba was i time to a greater extent than arrested past times the Belgian colonial authorities on charges of inciting anti-colonial riots inward Stanleyville. He was sentenced to 6 months inward prison theater for his anti-colonial activism. While Lumumba was inward prison, the MNC participated every bit a political political party inward the Belgian-Congo elections held inward Dec of 1959. Lumumba was released earlier the MNC won the May 1960 election. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> Lumumba, historic menses 34 years old, was announced every bit the Belgian Congo's starting fourth dimension prime number minister. Joseph Kasa-Vubu was named president. On June 30, 1960, the country’s novel leadership declared independence from the Belgian colonial rule. In an Independence Day ceremony for the newly named Republic of the Congo, King Baudouin spoke first, urging the Congolese to rest nether the leadership of Belgium. Lumumba responded, inward part, inward his vocalism communication every bit follows:</div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>"For this independence of the Congo, fifty-fifty every bit it is celebrated today amongst Belgium, a friendly dry soil amongst whom nosotros bargain every bit equal to equal, no Congolese worthy of the parent volition e'er last able to forget that it was past times fighting that it has been won, a day-to-day fight, an ardent too idealistic fight, a struggle inward which nosotros were spared neither privation nor suffering, too for which nosotros gave our strength too our blood. We are proud of this struggle, of tears, of fire, too of blood, to the depths of our being, for it was a noble too simply struggle, too indispensable to seat an destination to the humiliating slavery which was imposed upon us past times force." </i></div> </blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Unrest inward the New Republic</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlILTX05UZPUKJeP8rUWdnYp6OVLOtixtb5n2Jr6LhjOsbmzUgk0F7iqK8fEnNb3vlJTCdjYKQS_GCuuqhk-YcAPOy83DvOWIUbOiT-7EGp3617zUZyr730j5HhEvolRjqd-m5Yqm9bxg/s1600/Image+of+Patrice+Lumumba.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlILTX05UZPUKJeP8rUWdnYp6OVLOtixtb5n2Jr6LhjOsbmzUgk0F7iqK8fEnNb3vlJTCdjYKQS_GCuuqhk-YcAPOy83DvOWIUbOiT-7EGp3617zUZyr730j5HhEvolRjqd-m5Yqm9bxg/s1600/Image+of+Patrice+Lumumba.jpg" width="332" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Patrice Lumumba</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Lumumba's vocalism communication became a media sensation inward the West. Dissent inside the Blue Planet forces arose shortly after reports arose nigh military machine unrest, looting too European flight. By July 11, 1960, Moïse Tshombe declared himself the regional premier of the Katanga province. Tshombe was supported past times the Belgian authorities too European mining firms amongst involvement inward rubber, copper too other minerals. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> United Nations troops arrived, but did non movement to suppress the Katanga rebellion. Lumumba shortly sought Soviet military machine aid. President Kasa-Vubu, however, wanted a to a greater extent than moderate political approach too sought to withdraw Lumumba every bit prime number minister. Lumumba declared the presidential deed illegal too sought senate too parliament activity to declare President Kasa-Vubu‘s removal. The dry soil was torn over the Kasa-Vubu too Lumumba political divide. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;">   </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Joseph Mobutu’s Rise to Power too the Murder of Lumumba</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivYKtaJNtRVt9AFWgnO8c2OMwe2K7LD4uDvVM9_aq-PzzcTJF2X1NiPGSv1Ngql66dy_UcDM8EqsYlT6MlYZantsjyykR-9fLQs0ZrMvr6Hj9B6F1vUYBsL2cdwezK4wqLYbLYtKl3WnA/s1600/Photo+of+Young+Joseph+D%25C3%25A9sir%25C3%25A9+Mobutu+Sese+Seko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivYKtaJNtRVt9AFWgnO8c2OMwe2K7LD4uDvVM9_aq-PzzcTJF2X1NiPGSv1Ngql66dy_UcDM8EqsYlT6MlYZantsjyykR-9fLQs0ZrMvr6Hj9B6F1vUYBsL2cdwezK4wqLYbLYtKl3WnA/s1600/Photo+of+Young+Joseph+D%25C3%25A9sir%25C3%25A9+Mobutu+Sese+Seko.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 immature Joseph Désiré Mobutu rolls upwardly his sleeves </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">during a vocalism communication inward Dec 1965 inward Leopoldville, Congo</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On September 14, 1960, Lieutenant General Joseph Désiré Mobutu (later known every bit Mobutu Sese Seko) organized a coup inward the divided nation. Lumumba was placed nether menage arrest, but he shortly stole away to Stanleyville, organizing amidst his Haut-Congo supporters. On Dec 1, 1960, Lumumba was captured inward Port Francqui past times Mobutu’s troops too flown to Kinshasa (then Leopoldville). </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <a name='more'></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Soviet Union demanded Lumumba's liberate too called upon the U.N. Security Council to act. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld called for due procedure of law; on Dec 14, 1960, however, inward an 8-2 vote, the Soviet Union's resolution was defeated. Lumumba was transferred to the Katanga Province nether Mobutu‘s leadership.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> On Jan 17, 1961, Lumumba was restrained too flown to Lubumbashi (then Elizabethville). That same day, Patrice Lumumba, Maurice Mpolo too Joseph Okito were reportedly lined earlier a firing squad, according to Belgian reports. No due procedure was afforded those executed. While diverse accounts are reported, the truthful nature too facilitators of his murder bring never been definitively explained too brought to justice. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141523/stephen-r-weissman/what-really-happened-in-congo" target="_blank">Foreign Affairs report</a> indicates the coup was financed past times the U.S. government's CIA agency, whose extensive covert efforts influenced the political affairs of the region.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKM9yYzVyNZWFKTEkjW-EZFQM3252ORvpuKA6QOqg26tD11DWaAOxVLoKtcgJJDgfbyEc6dN6EY3eF6IjZ-0HGcDMCu_B_Pnr9R1-EWkrhZBP6qo2P-9GVLuHUIbQcJFFvCNwbX1GSmr4/s1600/Photo+of+Mbuto+Sese+Seku+with+US+President+Nixon.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKM9yYzVyNZWFKTEkjW-EZFQM3252ORvpuKA6QOqg26tD11DWaAOxVLoKtcgJJDgfbyEc6dN6EY3eF6IjZ-0HGcDMCu_B_Pnr9R1-EWkrhZBP6qo2P-9GVLuHUIbQcJFFvCNwbX1GSmr4/s320/Photo+of+Mbuto+Sese+Seku+with+US+President+Nixon.gif" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Congo leader Mobutu Sese Seko conversing amongst U.S. President Richard Nixon</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In February 2002, the Belgian authorities released an official apology to the Congolese people. In a m page report, the authorities admitted to failure of a "moral responsibility" too "an irrefutable percentage of responsibleness inward the events that led to the croak of Lumumba." </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>Lumumba’s Murder Leads to International Protests inward Europe </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> After Patrice Lumumba's assassination, protestors clashed amongst Belgian embassies too local constabulary inward Belgrade, Yugoslavia too at Trafalgar Square inward London, UK. Prior to Lumumba's imprisonment, he had arranged for his wife, Pauline, too their children to movement to Egypt.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> “We must movement forward, hitting out tirelessly against imperialism," said Che Guevara inward 1964, reflecting on the life of Lumumba. "From all over the globe nosotros bring to larn lessons which events afford. Lumumba’s murder should last a lesson for all of us.” </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> That same year, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=kwame-nkrumah">Malcolm X</a> declared Patrice Lumumba "the greatest Black homo who e'er walked the African continent."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>African Freedom Fighter too Pan Africanist </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> The heroism of Patrice Lumumba is embraced every bit a symbol of African independence efforts. In the 2006 election, a divulge of the running parties affiliated themselves amongst Lumumba's political philosophy. This includes the Unified Lumumbist Party (Parti Lumumbiste Unifié (PALU)), Mouvement Lumumbiste (MLP) too Mouvement National Congolais-Lumumba (MNC-L). The MNC-L is Pb past times Lumumba's eldest son, François Lumumba, who obtained a doctorate inward political economic science inward Republic of Hungary earlier returning to the Congo-Kinshasa inward 1992 to oppose Mobutu Sese Seko‘s dominion of the country, too therefore known every bit Zaire.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> In Kampala, Uganda, "Lumumba Hall" of Residence at Makerere University continues to comport the parent of Patrice Lumumba. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVISiwQrZTOPnm7o2DjY4FCs7-LnacqOmoV4WHLhYA3tk-QyOiCAVbQIRMLUsJOROKXCCDewd_Ajcj2Sqkt6W_0rruS65jk5m7mHjITcssIwukO50Z6TOeyH9a5LPojfxOUDQkg-H-lY/s1600/Photo+Map+of+the+Democratic+Republic+of+the+Congo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVISiwQrZTOPnm7o2DjY4FCs7-LnacqOmoV4WHLhYA3tk-QyOiCAVbQIRMLUsJOROKXCCDewd_Ajcj2Sqkt6W_0rruS65jk5m7mHjITcssIwukO50Z6TOeyH9a5LPojfxOUDQkg-H-lY/s320/Photo+Map+of+the+Democratic+Republic+of+the+Congo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><i>Did You Know? The diverse formal official dry soil names </i></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><i>for the Democratic Republic of the Congo</i></b></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Congo Free State</b> (État indépendant du Congo): 1885 to 1908. Belgian King Leopold II claimed personal ownership over the land</div> </li> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Belgian Congo</b> (Congo Belge): 1908 - 1960. King Leopold II's formal transfer of holding ownership to the province of Belgium</div> </li> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Republic of the Congo or Congo-Léopoldville</b>: 1960 - 1964. Distinguish from its western vecino inward the Republic of the Congo, formerly French Congo</div> </li> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Republic of the Congo or Congo-Kinshasa</b> (1964-1971)</div> </li> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Zaire</b> (Zaïre): 1971-1997</div> </li> <li><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Democratic Republic of the Congo</b>: 1997 to Present</div> </li> </ul> </div>

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