Lumumba

[loo-moom-buh]

noun

1. Patrice (Emergy) 1925–61, African political leader: premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960–61.

Lumumba

/ lʊˈmʊmbə /

noun

1. Patrice (pəˈtriːs). 1925–61, Congolese statesman; first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (1960); assassinated

Example Sentences

The police kept Knox awake for days and coerced her into implicating the man she worked for, bar owner Patrick Lumumba, in Kercher’s murder.

Read more on Salon

The document was later ruled inadmissible at trial, but earlier this year, Italy’s highest court upheld Knox’s separate conviction for committing slander against Lumumba.

Read more on Salon

The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a TikTok video, a deft and nearly breathless archival exposé that centers on the January 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, less than a year after he was elected leader of the newly formed Democratic Republic of the Congo, at last independent from Belgium’s colonial rule.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Security Council in the wake of Lumumba’s assassination.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the Democratic Republic of Congo's women against colonialism and rising to become a key adviser to Patrice Lumumba, DR Congo's first prime minister and a revered independence hero.

Read more on BBC