Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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But it took a windy and unlikely path to get there.
This is George Zangola Talagja, an African and global studies professor at the University of North Carolina.
He's currently a U.N.
ambassador for the Democratic Republic of Congo and has written several books about Africa's independence movement.
Lumumba left school, moved cities, bounced around, and worked various jobs and continued being an ardent reader.
But in his early 20s, while he was on a trip to a neighboring French colony, things snapped into focus.
When Lumumba returned from Ghana, tensions between independence activists and the Belgian government were reaching a boiling point.
On January 4th, 1959, police clashed with rioters.
And in the ensuing violence, dozens of people died.
a prime target for the Belgian government.
And so when more riots broke out later that year...
In response to the upheaval, the Belgian government agreed in principle to the idea of Congolese independence.
And so they scheduled a month-long roundtable meeting with Belgian and Congolese leaders to work out the details.
The Congolese delegation pressured the Belgians to include Lumumba, who was still in jail at the time.
Within days, the date for Congolese independence was announced.
June 30, 1960.
Coming up, Patrice Lumumba tries to take control of Congo's resources and faces a world power.
But in the span of days, one of the most resource-rich provinces seceded from Congo with the help of Belgium.
Here's Siddharth Kara again.
Lumumba turned to the United Nations for help, but Belgian troops remained.
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