Role Of Patrice Lumumba

This new country fresh from being colonized had an army but very few Congolese officers just mainly army regulars. The country kept many foreign officers as the military trained local soldiers for leadership positions. Many soldiers saw no chance for advancement and it seemed to be the same conditions as they experienced before independence. An atmosphere of discontent grew rampant for foreigners still in positions of power. On July 05, 1960 the army had a revolt against these white officers near Leopoldville. They also attacked many Europeans targets in the area. Large groups of mutineers paraded over the area attacking any foreign interest they could find. There was wide spread looting and pillaging. The white population was targeted primarily. With the area in total chaos and no one to police the unrest, the local white population had to flee. The majority of the white refugees had to go to Brazzaville and Stanleyville to escape certain death. The unstable government and the clear inability to control the military and the people created concern locally and internationally.

but they view the reconstruction of the African state through the hands of Lumumba a fellow African who was the Prime Minister. The movie depicts the desire of Lumumba of bringing an orderly and a peaceful transfer of power that leads to him having enemies in all political spheres. The militants were advocating for freedom and demanded that the white officers in the military be replaced with the African soldiers. The Belgian colonists are met with violence and these leads to a

Formerly known as Zaire, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DROC) is located in the center of Africa bordered by nine different countries and one territory. (Lerner, 10) The bordering countries are Central African Republic and Sudan at the northern boarder, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Burundi on the eastern boarder, Zambia and Angola directly South of DROC and Congo on the Western boarder.

In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, the reader is introduced to Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, through the voices of the fictional Price women. Unlike the Price family, Patrice Lumumba was a non-fictional character who was elected and served only 7 months as the Congo’s Prime Minister. His reign was brought short by his execution in 1961. Though his tenure may have been short and occurred more than 50 years ago, Patrice Lumumba remains to this very day, an important man in history.

The 20th century composed of many organizations ideologies and leaders helping to promote and advance liberation both in America and worldwide. These different entities worked to defy the social structure filled with aspects of conservatism and oppression and rather upheld the Africana sense of governance and encouraged socialism in terms of a more broad and pervasive perspective on civil rights. Additionally, many leaders, Nelson Mandela, MLK, and Madame C.J. Walker, to name a few, made domestic and international differences advancing the Africana community through different inventions,

In July of 1956, Lumumba was sentenced to two years imprisonment for embezzling $2,520 from the post office for the Association des Evolués. After the Association returned the money, Lumumba’s sentence was reduced to 12 months, which began his career as a prisoner, leaving and re-entering the prison system for the next five years. During his 1956-1957 imprisonment, Lumumba wrote Congo, My Congo, 200 pages to “make a contribution towards the search for a solution for the present and future problems of the Congo” (Lumumba 7). Because this book was not published until after Lumumba’s death, it did not have an impact on the independence movement, but the views Lumumba wrote about certainly did.

My research topic is about the Civil Rights Movement (Martin Luther King Jr. Vs Malcolm X) and will be focusing on two important icons that have an important part of African American History. I am going to further discuss in this research paper, “What were the views of Martin Luther King. Jr and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights movement? What were their goals and methods to achieve equality and peace?” Both leaders wanted to unite the black race with the white race and achieve equal rights. Martin Luther King. Jr and Malcolm X were both very powerful and influential leaders with different views and approaches to solving the issue of racism and equality.Starting off with some background information, Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15th, 1929 in the Atlanta hospital. He was the son of the rich, well respected minister and was loved by his family and community very much. Martin Luther King Jr.’s father was a Baptist preacher and he wanted to follow in his footsteps. Malcolm X did not have an easy childhood compared to King, instead his house burned down by the Ku Klux Klan (white supremacists) when he was very young , his father was killed in a streetcar by white supremacists, got called “nigger” and moved around foster homes after his mother was sent to an insane asylum.

him to attempt to bring change upon the Congolese people and society, but he did nothing

The Civil Rights movement has aimed to gain rights for African-Americans for decades. Over the course of the semester we have looked at movement’s that have helped advocate for civil rights. One of the movements of that we looked at specifically in class was Martin L. King Jr’s movement and his “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”. In this letter, we hear Dr. King's honest opinion about the criticism he received from his opponents of timely protest. We gain a lot of insight about King's honest opinion about his political motivations of his movements and why he felt that it was critical to act when he did. Another movement that we discussed but didn’t directly look at was the Black Panther Party. An outside article that discusses the Black

W.E.B. DuBois was one of the most important African-American activists during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and supported Pan-Africanism. DuBois believed that blacks should fight for their rights by being intellectual and

I don't necessarily know any civil rights activist outside of United States, unless you may consider Malcolm X, since he took a pilgrimage to MECCA. Due to my train of thought, I assumed Nelson Mandela would have many features and Characteristics as Malcolm X. While he did appear to be more like Malcolm X than a Martin Luther king, he still wanted some peace among the white community. It is said in the book that he had many white friends among the Communist group. However, his literary appearance favors more of a Malcolm X, due to his extreme nationalism towards the African community that Malcolm X did. Additionally, when I read about Mandela's relationship to Xuma, it looked very alike to Malcolm X’s relationship to Elijah Muhammad. I was surprised to see many different groups from all over Africa, as well as the Indian one come together, in the appearance of an alliance. I was more amazed to see that my own country, India, had ties with the South African movements. I may have been even more surprised to see that Communist group in South Africa and the ANC were profusely getting along. Although he never combined into one major group, I was still amazed to see them have talks between themselves. I was amazed by this due to the fact that in the civil rights movement of America, Martin Luther King's Movement was never really related

Over the course of human history, many believe that the “Congo Free State”, which lasted from the 1880s to the early 1900s, was one of the worst colonial states in the age of Imperialism and was one of the worst humanitarian disasters over time. Brutal methods of collecting rubber, which led to the deaths of countless Africans along with Europeans, as well as a lack of concern from the Belgian government aside from the King, combined to create the most potent example of the evils of colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s. The Congo colonial experience, first as the Congo Free State then later as Belgian Congo, was harmful to that region of Africa both then and now because of the lack of Belgian and International

Great job on your discussion post. You found several similarities and differences between African leaders that I did not think about at first. This week, I also analyzed Jomo Kenyatta from Kenya. As a nationalist leader, he thought rebellion from the European powers was the best option for Kenya to become an independent nation-state. Kenyatta is similar to Okonkwo in “Things Fall Apart” as he desires to rebel against the Christian missionaries but is unsuccessful as there is a lack of support from others.

Desmond tutu wanted to stop the discrimination in africa but he did not want to do it in a violent and bad way so he did it in a peaceful way and the first thing he did was to not live in the same neighborhood that the dean lived which was a white one and went to live in the area where the black people lived

(Mandela pg.294) Mandela was the first democratic President of South Africa. Both leaders took action to develop a democratic country and became well known political leaders of their respective countries. Like Mandela, Maathai was dealing with a corrupt government that both leaders felt needed change.