Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba

by Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick

Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in the second half of the twentieth century.

When Belgium relinquished colonial control in June 1960, a charismatic thirty-five-year-old African...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725271
• ISBN13: 9780674725270
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 10.2"