Dead, living, free, or in prison on the orders of the colonialists, it is not I who counts. It is the Congo, it is our people for whom independence has been transformed into a cage.
— Patrice Lumumba Modern

Congolese independence leader

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Context

Final letter before assassination

Date / Period

1961

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/lumumba/1961/letter.htm

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