Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961.

When the country clinched its independence in 1960, Lumumba became its first prime minister. He was just 34 years old. Lumumba selected Blouin as his "chief of protocol" and speechwriter.

TASS/. The Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) has once again been bestowed with the name of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Not so. To Military Boss Colonel Joseph Mobutu’s headquarters came an alarming telegram from Stanleyville: DEMAND IMMEDIATE LIBERATION PRIME MINISTER LUMUMBA . . . IF NOT WILL ARREST ALL ...

Ugly politics. Ugly, deadly politics. Congo elected President Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Prime Minister Lumumba as its leaders, and the latter tackled the task of releasing the country from the ruling ...

Less than 200 days later, the Republic of the Congo’s charismatic prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, would be dead. He was assassinated by a political rival but, as the documentary Soundtrack to a ...