Patrice lumumba biography congolese

Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo).

. Lumumba’s tribe was the Batetela (Tetela) which is a dynamic branch of the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central Congo [1]. He grew up in a mud-brick house.

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The Congo was a colony of Belgium and, as such, he attended both Protestant and Catholic schools run by white Belgian missionaries.  Lumumba was intelligent and used to ask too many problematic questions [2].

Lumumba was ambitious and aimed for social mobility, predominantly to form part of the “evolue”, the upper strata of the middle class; the highest-level indigenous Congolese could attain in the Belgian colony [3].

 His first employment was at the Postal Office as a postal clerk in Stanleyville City in 1954.However, Lumumba was accused of embezzlement and was jailed in 1955. Due to an extensive interview