Volume 20, Number 5 · April 5, 1973
Martyr by Choice
By Catherine Hoskyns
Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba 1958-1961
edited by Jean Van Lierde, translated by Helen Lane, with an Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre
Little, Brown, 433 pp., $12.50
It is now twelve years since Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo, was killed. Time enough, one would think, for the passions he aroused to have died down. And yet the name of Lumumba still signifies for many people either the height of African heroism or the personification of the darkness and disorder of African independence. But though these public images exist (and probably always will), material is now available which makes it possible to go behind them and make a more searching analysis of Lumumba's situation and the role he played.
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