how did the lumomba children feel when they watched this interview?was in their hearts when, decades later, more and more details were revealed? monstrous massacre of his father. what punishment would they consider fair for those who carried out a criminal order? et c'est une interview, on se demande. after watching this interview we wonder: was this man on a mission or was he hunting for a trophy? will go down in the history of the struggle for independence as one of the main centers of resistance. many of the great fighters for our independence were from sowet. mandela told them to stay in this city, they left their villages and based themselves here. local residents are up to are still inspired by the stories and courage and determination of nelson mandela. we are inspired by what this city went through, its history, because the key events of the resistance movement to apartheid in south africa began here in soweta. there is a street here called velogaza street. this is the only street in the world where two nobel prize laureates, nelson mandela an

president kasavubu spoke out against lumomba’s course, an army mutiny broke out, and in the most resource-richtely declared independence from the congo. belgium sends its troops into the former colony to restore order. prime minister lumumba appeals for...

i was asked by the ohio. university press to write the book on patricse lumomba in a series of booksgreat 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 resource. forces 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 the head 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 watch the show, drop us a line through our social media handle appearing on the screen and you can watch this episode on all of this shows on our website pristv.ir thanks lot for watching and goodbye for now. the headlines this hour: tehron spresses again that it respects other countries sovereignty and territorial integrity, but it does

fighting. united states in many different countries ago was the the assassination of the of patrice lumomba the prime minister of democratic republic of congo who was victim of a us back coup back in 19 the end of the 50s - so and he was killed and he was most probably labeled as a terrorist back then as well, any freedom fighter who is is basically brave enough to stand against this unjust world order, at one time it is the colonial world order, at one time it is the bipolar world order, at this moment it is the american back world order that is you know basically implicit in this genocide, the the israeli genocide of the palestinian people, so this is the most plain case of us hypocrisy, you know, saying that israel has the right to defend itself when it is actually the occupying power in palestine which you know has made gaza into an open air prison has is you know killing men, women and children daily every day we have more than 100 palestinians killed by israeli air strikes, many more are at. you know star and you know being killed by diseases, so this is, as i said, one of the most pl