The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of
lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the
1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba--the first prime minister of
the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity--since it
perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well
as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time,
Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the
Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba's personal strength
and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of
the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics.
