(AFRICA) LUMUMBA PATRICE The Last Days of Lumumba The Sorro

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(AFRICA.) LUMUMBA, PATRICE. The Last Days of Lumumba * The Sorrows of Lumumba. Two volumes, 8vo, original pictorial wrappers; covers faded, poor quality paper toned; ownership signature and the numerals "I" and "II" on the covers. Onitsha, Nigeria, circa 1961-1962

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first editions. scarce. OCLC locates four copies of the first title and only one of the second title. Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), pan-Africanist, rebel leader and first freely elected leader of the Congo was a postal clerk and traveling beer salesman, until being caught up in the general African national movement of the mid 1950s. He rose through the MNC, or Mouvement National Congolais, to be its leader. Elected president in 1960, he was in power less than a year before being forced out of office, arrested and subsequently assassinated while in the custody of Katangan forces, backed by Belgium and the CIA. Lumumba was an inspiration to Africans still under the yoke of colonialism, as well as to the nascent Black Radical movements in the United States and West Indies.