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Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo). . Lumumba’s tribe was the Batetela (Tetela) which is a dynamic branch of the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central Congo. He grew up in a mud-brick house. The Congo was a colony of Belgium and, as such, he attended both Protestant and Catholic schools run by white Belgian missionaries. Lumumba was intelligent and used to ask too many problematic questions

Lumumba was ambitious and aimed for social mobility, predominantly to form part of the “evolue”, the upper strata of the middle class; the highest-level indigenous Congolese could attain in the Belgian colony. His first employment was at the Postal Office as a postal clerk in Stanleyville City in 1954. However, Lumumba was accused of embezzlement and was jailed in 1955. Due to an extensive interview with King Baudouin, when he visited the Congo in 1955, Lumumba’s sentence was reduced in 1956. Lumumba, after working for almost three years,was appointed as the sales director for a brewery company in Léopoldville (currently known as Kinshasa) in 1957. This is how Lumumba left Stanleyville (currently known as Kisangani) for the Congo's capital city, Kinshasa.

While Lumumba was working in Stanleyville, he joined the Belgian Liberal Political Party. When he relocated to Léopoldville to work at the brewery, he helped to find the Movement National Congolais (MNC) political party. Lumumba's good personality and public speaking skills won him many admirers, making him a focal point within the party. While in prison in 1955, Lumumba reconsidered his status as an evolue and made a major shift towards Pan-Africanism and Congolese nationalism. The notion of nationalism enabled different ethnic groups that made up the Congolese society to come together and fight against colonial economic exploitation, political repression and cultural oppression.

The Belgian led government, in 1959, announced that Congolese local elections should take place within five years to full Congolese independence. At the Luluabourg Congress meeting in April 1959, various political groups and some members of MNC that favoured a unitary form of government for the Congo chose Lumumba to lead them. Within the MNC, however, there were other leaders that considered Lumumba’s views as radical and not good for the nation. It is argued that the result of this difference of opinion, was a split in the MNC party in July 1959 with a majority of the members following Albert Kalonji. Even though Lumumba had left Stanleyville , he was briefly detained on charges of encouraging the outbreak of riots in Stanleyville in November 1959. He was released from detention in time to attend the Round Table Conference in Brussels which paved the way for Congo’s general elections. Lumumba was an effective speaker in each of the Congo's major vehicular languages as well as in French when compared to other Congolese leaders and this helped his campaigning.

After the May 1960 general elections, Congo achieved independence on 30 June 1960 with Lumumba as the leader of the largest single party. He was selected to become the Congo's first prime minister and his political rival, Joseph Kasavubu, became president of the Congo.

As the prime minister, Lumumba faced sudden emergencies.The Congolese elite feared Lumumba’s notion of nationalism and participatory democracy and thus they started revolting against him. The revolt of the army and the secession of the provinces of Katanga and Southern Kasai were further emergencies. Lumumba sent Congolese troops to Southern Kasai province in attempt to restore the situation but the poorly trained soldiers killed thousands of Congolese civilians. The United Nations, through Secretary General Hammerskjöld, blamed Lumumba for the massacre of civilians. Lumumba disliked Belgium and the UN for not helping to restore order and unity in Congo. The Congolese elite conspired with foreign states, specifically the CIA and US administration, to get rid of Lumumba. When Lumumba asked for military help from the Soviet Union against the secessionist provinces of Southern Kasai and Katanga, President Kasavubu dismissed him from office on 5th September 1960. This was the beginning of the end of the political life of Patrice Lumumba. The Congolese National Assembly disagreed with the decision of the president and ordered Lumumba back in power as prime minister. This did not happen since a faction of the Congolese army, under Colonel Mobutu, took over the government instead and put Lumumba under the house arrest under the protection of Ghanaian troops of the UN force. Lumumba managed to get out of the house arrest in Kinshasa and attempted to leave for Stanleyville, but he was arrested by an army patrol and held prisoner in a military camp at Thysville.

From the military camp, Lumumba was transferred to Elisabethville, Katanga on January 18, 1961 despite the presence of United Nations troops, he was picked up by a small group led by Katanga's interior minister, Godefroid Munongo. Lumumba was taken to a nearby house where he was assassinated.

Lumumba's assassination made him a symbol of struggle for champions of African nations' attempts to bond and set themselves free from the influence of the European Colonizers.

Patrice Émery Lumumba - South Africa history online

Why Patrice Lumumba Was a Threat

How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Industrial Metal: Metal you can dance to in the club.

White boys really cooked on this one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

bit idea: founding a new country an having the official currency be smartphone-sized ingots of metal like in Star Wars

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I always check the APY on my bank account and for months it hasn't changed and it makes me feel silly... Until today.

Capital One thought they could sneak a 0.10% decrease past me the fuckers. I will become back my money (aka probably do nothing)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Death to banks but CIBC has a savings account that's like 4.1% APY right now which is pretty solid from what I understand. Might be worth looking at.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Actually I think I'm gonna move most of my savings into a fidelity account and stick it in VBIL which is at 4.20% right now, plus it's state tax exempt. Then the rest in C1 for easy access

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

If pooping were a crime I'd be public enemy number #1 screm-cool

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Deindustrialisation is fun because you'll have areas called like "The industrial center" and there's like a grocery store, a veterinary clinic and an office park.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

And maybe a museum that glorifies a worker-killing industrialist and the disposession of everyone that lived in the area.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

do you think morrowind could be "remastered"? i don't think i could accept an unreal engine version of vanilla morrowind, even if it 'modernized' everything. morrowind is the game you get to go from Anvil to Necrom, its not a game about vvardenfel anymore

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

There were demos for a visual remaster with RTX remix a few years ago. I don't think much came of it, but I know the Half Life 2 RTX team has badgered Nvidia to add a ton of new tools to remix since then so maybe it's more likely now

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Fiji: 'we're not worried about China's military presence in the SCS'

Australia: 'yes you are'

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I just found out one of my nieces has been in a relationship with someone highly ranked in a cartel. Don’t really talk to her much anymore so I didn’t know until family told me that her partner was stabbed multiple times by a group of men when he walked outside one day. He’s apparently healed since then but she still enjoys the money. I worry that the military will eventually catch up to them. They’ve been cracking down hard on cartels in my country since the 2010’s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

susie is big justice and lancer is the rizzler susie-huh

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There has been a lot of good in not consuming weed for me. However, I wish I was as chill as I was when I was using. Even that's a misnomer because I was much more neurotic and upset about things that I can either let go or have been disabused of. But in exchange for the clarity of sobriety I've become much too... orchestrated to feel good under the influence. It no longer feels good, on the contrary, a modest edible gave me dysphoria from the rush in my head. It's been years since I've felt nervous about walking into a social situation (because of the socializing), but if I smoke I shrivel into silence immediately and feel like I'm missing out. I don't fuck with driving while high so I become more dependent. I have a habit of thinking haunting thoughts to myself which aren't exactly... constructive criticism. There's a smell that comes with smoking. I can't be around children, in the gym, the elderly, or my family and feel good about it.

But I remember right after finishing my first novel. I took a flower cooking vape out into a field under the stars while there was a little snow on the ground. It was cold so I was in my favorite jacket and I was alone. I pretended I was in a circle with characters from the book (just like I would do drugs with my friends) and that the Aurora Borealis was in the sky. It was really peaceful in a way that escapes me anymore.

I miss being able to feel at ease. I used to be a heavy sleeper, a belly laugher, and an irreverent asshole. Now I wonder how plot points contribute to the climax and which subplots need to be scrubbed and changed to get more impact in fewer words. I have a hard gaze when I'm thinking. It's interesting

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

sadness-abysmal I have no more hope in my life

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You can have some of mine bro I don't need it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

In a zombie scenario, I don't think I would be patient 0. I Would be more like patient ~100k, which is still pretty good!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ICE has finally started gnabbing people in my town today; four people got transported, but not without the community coming out for it. I don't think it got very spicy but things will probably ramp up moving forward. And of course our piece of shit pigs collaborated with them even though we are in a sanctuary state. Ugh.

Fucking death to america

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, more information came out that the PSL chapter in our area instructed people specifically NOT to block the vehicles whisking our neighbors away. Everyone who decided to show up has seen videos of what the consequences are of that, I'm sure. It's THEIR prerogative if they want to do whatever they can in their power to protect those people who were taken today. Outrageous

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it is july 1 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

How did postmodernism not get laughed out of all non-philosophy departments after the Sokal affair lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Has the future always seemed so grim? Is anyone looking forward to it? Aren't we supposed to?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The future is what we build together. It can only look like what we put into it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I do wonder if every generation feels like they’re going to be the last.

Those constructing socialism in the 20th century certainly didn’t seem to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I know the next 5-10 years will be hell. I hope I survive. The nature of the future beyond then is still too hazy, but I can only hope that it is socialist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I feel dread and such often but I look forward to a positive future and do everything I can that I believe would help that come to be no matter how unlikely, because only seeing negative futures just makes them that much more likely. The present is already ruled by misery, I won't let them steal my hopes too.

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Delete my neuron history after I die.

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