baleke, what?t's your opinion on us double standards on uh democracy where it assassinates democratically elected president or leader like lumumba and props up a dictator like mobutu? that's uh you know that's uh one of the greatest example in the 20th century of the american foreign policy cynicism and neocolonialism imperialism um we had a different context during those days with the cold war. so it was an agemonic war that was being played uh with african leaders. the progressive forces in the democratic republic of congo are struggling to ensure that the masses control and determine the affairs of the congo. patrice lumumba gave his life so that the sons and daughters of the congo would ultimately take ownership of the country's wealth for their benefits and for the benefit of africa. "a congolese citizen here speaks on the anti-colonial legacy of patric lamumba and how current leaders have betrayed this legacy, yeah the uh lift the..." has a great legacy that is working for the people and uh a

now let's bring in gideon baleke. can we say that the this cia crime shattered the hopes of millions of congolese for freedom and material prosperity? yes, absolutely, the shadow. of lumumba still uh to you know continue to be alive today, even in the congoese politics, there was a huge inheritance of that assassination that can be seen today in the congoese politics, as you know you move lumumba was an revolutionary leader, nationalistic leader, but he was not you know a communist, as if most of the western um stakeholders wanted to... taggin rumba was just a revolutionary person who wanted something greater for for the congo. he was visionary person because he saw the congo of the future and that was seen as a danger for um people who had interest in the congo and that's why they ended up assassinating him because they didn't want to have a someone who has a critical thinking, someone who think about his people, someone who is a real patriot, they wanted people that could be easily. manipulated and that's why the ci

i like to thank, kambale, mosavuli and gidon baleke for their incisive analysis today.me is george zongol, professor of african studies at university of north carolina at chapo hill. i was asked by the ohio university press to write the book on patist lumba in a series of books and great african leaders. patrice lumumba was young man who became the first prime minister of the congo at his independence on june 30, 1960. his main goal as a national leader was to utilize. the natural resources of the congo, my country, to improve the living conditions of our people, the powers that be outside of africa, namely in the united states and western europe wanted to undermine democracy in the congo in order to continue the control they had over our resources. uh, since they they saw lumumba is an obstacle to their own goals, they had to get rid of him, and that's it for this week's edition of africa today, it's always great having you at the show, drop us a line through our social media handle appearing on this. screen and you can watch this episode on all our previous shows on o

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