The day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations... Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.
— Patrice Lumumba Modern

Congolese independence leader

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Context

Letter from prison to his wife Pauline

Date / Period

1960

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/lumumba/1960/letter.htm

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