Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Life & Times
ISBN-10
1913368777
ISBN-13
9781913368777
Edition
3 New edition
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Imprint
Haus Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 4th, 2026
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
202 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.80 x 2.00 cms
Ksh 2,350.00
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This book explores the life of Patrice Lumumba (1926-61), the iconic leader of the Congo’s independence movement and a symbol of anti-imperialist struggle. Revised with new intelligence archives, it traces his transition from nationalist to revolutionary and details the crisis that exposed Western colonialism.
Patrice Lumumba had been prime minister of the newly liberated Congo for only seven months at the time of his assassination in 1961. As news of his execution spread, his image was brandished in demonstrations around the world along with those of Che Guevara and Mao Zedong. He would go on to become an icon of anti-imperialist struggle and perhaps the most famous leader of the African independence movement. Lumumba’s life and the freedom that he sought for the Congo exposed ongoing Western colonialism and the problematic nature of the independence granted to huge swathes of the globe after 1945. Leo Zeilig’s concise, direct biography tells the story of the Congo in the dying days of colonialism; of Lumumba’s transition from nationalist, to revolutionary, to international symbol of African liberation; and of the role of Western powers in his murder.
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