TIL that Patrice Lumumba ,the first democratically elected PM of Congo and a pan-Africanist, lasted only 81 days before being killed by the Belgians and the CIA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba



Submitted December 29, 2014 at 08:10AM by traject_ http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2qo8qm/til_that_patrice_lumumba_the_first_democratically/