Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo). . Lumumba’s tribe was the Batetela (Tetela) which is a dynamic branch of the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central Congo. He grew up in a mud-brick house. The Congo was a colony of Belgium and, as such, he attended both Protestant and Catholic schools run by white Belgian missionaries. Lumumba was intelligent and used to ask too many problematic questions
Lumumba was ambitious and aimed for social mobility, predominantly to form part of the “evolue”, the upper strata of the middle class; the highest-level indigenous Congolese could attain in the Belgian colony. His first employment was at the Postal Office as a postal clerk in Stanleyville City in 1954. However, Lumumba was accused of embezzlement and was jailed in 1955. Due to an extensive interview with King Baudouin, when he visited the Congo in 1955, Lumumba’s sentence was reduced in 1956. Lumumba, after working for almost three years,was appointed as the sales director for a brewery company in Léopoldville (currently known as Kinshasa) in 1957. This is how Lumumba left Stanleyville (currently known as Kisangani) for the Congo’s capital city, Kinshasa.
While Lumumba was working in Stanleyville, he joined the Belgian Liberal Political Party. When he relocated to Léopoldville to work at the brewery, he helped to find the Movement National Congolais (MNC) political party. Lumumba’s good personality and public speaking skills won him many admirers, making him a focal point within the party. While in prison in 1955, Lumumba reconsidered his status as an evolue and made a major shift towards Pan-Africanism and Congolese nationalism. The notion of nationalism enabled different ethnic groups that made up the Congolese society to come together and fight against colonial economic exploitation, political repression and cultural oppression.
The Belgian led government, in 1959, announced that Congolese local elections should take place within five years to full Congolese independence. At the Luluabourg Congress meeting in April 1959, various political groups and some members of MNC that favoured a unitary form of government for the Congo chose Lumumba to lead them. Within the MNC, however, there were other leaders that considered Lumumba’s views as radical and not good for the nation. It is argued that the result of this difference of opinion, was a split in the MNC party in July 1959 with a majority of the members following Albert Kalonji. Even though Lumumba had left Stanleyville , he was briefly detained on charges of encouraging the outbreak of riots in Stanleyville in November 1959. He was released from detention in time to attend the Round Table Conference in Brussels which paved the way for Congo’s general elections. Lumumba was an effective speaker in each of the Congo’s major vehicular languages as well as in French when compared to other Congolese leaders and this helped his campaigning.
After the May 1960 general elections, Congo achieved independence on 30 June 1960 with Lumumba as the leader of the largest single party. He was selected to become the Congo’s first prime minister and his political rival, Joseph Kasavubu, became president of the Congo.
As the prime minister, Lumumba faced sudden emergencies.The Congolese elite feared Lumumba’s notion of nationalism and participatory democracy and thus they started revolting against him. The revolt of the army and the secession of the provinces of Katanga and Southern Kasai were further emergencies. Lumumba sent Congolese troops to Southern Kasai province in attempt to restore the situation but the poorly trained soldiers killed thousands of Congolese civilians. The United Nations, through Secretary General Hammerskjöld, blamed Lumumba for the massacre of civilians. Lumumba disliked Belgium and the UN for not helping to restore order and unity in Congo. The Congolese elite conspired with foreign states, specifically the CIA and US administration, to get rid of Lumumba. When Lumumba asked for military help from the Soviet Union against the secessionist provinces of Southern Kasai and Katanga, President Kasavubu dismissed him from office on 5th September 1960. This was the beginning of the end of the political life of Patrice Lumumba. The Congolese National Assembly disagreed with the decision of the president and ordered Lumumba back in power as prime minister. This did not happen since a faction of the Congolese army, under Colonel Mobutu, took over the government instead and put Lumumba under the house arrest under the protection of Ghanaian troops of the UN force. Lumumba managed to get out of the house arrest in Kinshasa and attempted to leave for Stanleyville, but he was arrested by an army patrol and held prisoner in a military camp at Thysville.
From the military camp, Lumumba was transferred to Elisabethville, Katanga on January 18, 1961 despite the presence of United Nations troops, he was picked up by a small group led by Katanga’s interior minister, Godefroid Munongo. Lumumba was taken to a nearby house where he was assassinated.
Lumumba’s assassination made him a symbol of struggle for champions of African nations’ attempts to bond and set themselves free from the influence of the European Colonizers.
Patrice Émery Lumumba - South Africa history online
Why Patrice Lumumba Was a Threat
How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence
- 🐻Link to all Hexbear comms https://hexbear.net/post/1403966
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5423450
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread https://hexbear.net/post/5346484
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread https://hexbear.net/post/5423990
- 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread https://hexbear.net/post/5415025
- 🧡 Disabled comm megathread https://hexbear.net/post/5419599
- ☕ Parenting Chat https://hexbear.net/post/5414669
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
Aid:
Theory:
Wild that I live in the country of both a) lots of people carrying guns and b) lots of people setting off random fireworks it really seems like a winning combination
I don’t really get why society won’t grant me a living in exchange for me spending most of my time making sure cats are happy. There are a lot of cats out there, many are not getting the love they need and everyone us generally really happy to find out that cats are having fun. Give me a Cat Ranch. With sufficient funding and space I could totally keep ar least 20 cats absolutely stoked all day every day. Throw in a ranch hand and that could go up to 60. Six people could for sure keep a solid 150 or so cats in barracks and ready for war. Its too bad being a witch isn’t really a thing cause my affinity for cats really seems to come in handy there. Im pretty good at cackling too.
Has any 3d game ever done dream logic for geography well? Like you turn a corner outside and then you’re in a building and while a certain place may lead to another consistently there is no real world logic behind it? Like the hall leads to a bathroom and if you open he shower curtain theres an desert behind it kinda thing? Games seem uniquely able to do that. I hafe a recurring dreamscape that as long as what loaded when you did what didn’t make irl sense I could probably make navigable in a game if the player got used to the nonsense geography. Ive seen games that go way too far with it and may as well be or are procedurally generated. Aside from specific set pieces in games I’ve never really seen that kind of spatial dreamscape thing and it would be sick if brought togerher well. I wanna feel like Cooper at rhe end of twin peaks season 2
that’s our (humanity’s) secret, officer…we’re all crashouts
(i breka down weeping in the starbucks while imagingin i am becoming the increidble hualk)
which way, western they?? (pull out my heart and feed it to the megathread, or go to badposting and make a “lenin my goat” spampost???)
the Big Beautiful Working Class (who needs to mercilessly devour the bourgeoisie: for the sake of our friends, siblings, lovers, parents, children, children’s children, our comrades we’ll never meet who live a globe away, their children & parents & friends & lovers, the memories (or even spirits if you conceive of realoity like that) of our past comrades & their friends, siblings, lovers, parents, children.
(
ahem um, devour them as in politically - bloodlessly & non-literally, like a big old peaceful general strike that goes “boo!” 
and scares the mean ol’ industrialists so much they hand over the reins of power. yeah.)My wealthy gusano relatives told me they aren’t bothered by the BBB because the economy couldn’t afford to take care of people who didn’t work and expected the state to take care of them.
They also aren’t afraid of getting deported because they’re wealthy and even if they do they can just live in a nicely gentrified part of Guatemala City.
My disgust for these people never reaches a limit. They’re the side of my family that sided with the fascists during the civil war and only left because they wanted to make more money in America.
Professor E. Gadd be like “Luiiigi, ikeh-ikeh, sookoo sookoo”
Woke up this afternoon, learned that basically every societal problem is about to start getting worse faster than it was before, just another day in what I hope will be referred to by historians as the late Amerikkkan empire.
Good Lord, if that neighborhood had an HOA, Phineas and Ferb wouldn’t be able to do shit.
What if instead of melodrama it was fellowdrama and it was just for the boys
Pulled a muscle in my leg doing my physical therapy exercises lmao
Well, the move is done, that was the shittiest apartment i’ve been in so far
Vania should be stricken from metroidvania im replaying them, I liked them as a kid and they were the first ones I got into but now vastly vastly prefer the old school ones.
They are just throwing everything at the wall. The shambolic castle design and poor signposting as well as lack of map references for why you were stuck at whatever dead end. Metroid showed when a red door was red on the damn map. The exp system and short range weapons combine to make backtracking fucking suck and you’ll need to do a lot of it. The dead ends are just dead ends cause most of the time the reward you get is useless to you aside from sale value to restock on potions. Instead of potions you could just have more health or not need to tank as many hits. Cause youre gonna blast through those potions trying to backtrack through hallways of unskippable enemies thar respawn every time you leave the room or giant open areas with small damage but hard to avoid enemies that fuck up your jumps and whittle you down for the next hallway. So you just tank hits going from save point to save point between dead ends until you need to warp back to the first area to buy potions and start your random search from the closest warp room to where the last unexplored dead end was. Im finding this really frustrating with dawn of sorrow as well cause after you can double jump you can dive kick flying enemies and bounce off which gives height and restores your second jump. My sequence breaks have yielded me a weapon im not gonna use, armor that i already have on and a full magic restore and magic restores itself by not using it. The souls of enemies being random ability drops is another thing that’s cool in concept but falls apart in execution cause your starting souls are fucoing stupid. Instead of one of each type where one is pretty useless and the other is just a stat bonus the starting ones should have been equivalents to the classic subweapons. I didn’t get any souls that attack upwards and am sick of using heavy swords for the arc when id rather use an equivalent to the age and id rather not grind axe knights to do so.
this timeline is fucked i need to find the right way to nihilistically crashout we could’ve had something beautiful but isntead we live on nazi-earth
