Patrice Lumumba

Question 1

Where was Patrice Lumumba born?

Answer 1

Tiny village of Onalua - Kasai Province

Question 2

How long did he live for?

Answer 2

1925 - 1960

Question 3

What type of education did he complete?

Answer 3

Primary school education

Question 4

What educated elite was he part of?

Answer 4

Evolues - educated middle class

Question 5

When did this educated elite form?

Answer 5

1940s

Question 6

When did Lumumba co-found a political party?

Answer 6

1958

Question 7

What was the name of this political party?

Answer 7

The National Congolese Movement (MNC)

Question 8

What did the MNC in brace?

Answer 8

Members from all tribes and provinces

Question 9

How did Lumumba become a nationalist?

Answer 9

He had an appeal over and above his own ethnic group

Question 10

What conference did he attend in 1958?

Answer 10

Pan-Africanist Conference in Accra, Ghana

Question 11

What did he become a member of at this conference?

Answer 11

Permanent directing committee

Question 12

Who did he receive personal counsel from?

Answer 12

Ghana as prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah

Question 13

What was this conference important in?

Answer 13

Shaping limb members long-term objectives

Question 14

When did he become the prime minister of Congo?

Answer 14

1960

Question 15

What did he become a victim of?

Answer 15

Coup d’ état

Question 16

What was the coup d’ etat funded by?

Answer 16

United States and Belgium – acting on behalf of European nations

Question 17

What were these European nations fearing?

Answer 17

African nationalism

Question 18

What is he often referred to as?

Answer 18

“Best sound of Africa”
“the linking of Congo”
The Black Messiah

Question 19

What was he aimed at achieving?

Answer 19

Complete independence and having complete control over the resources

Question 20

What was this complete control lead to?

Answer 20

Enhance the living condition of the Congolese people

Question 21

What did he fight for?

Answer 21

Social justice

Question 22

As a reformer what did he believe in?

Answer 22

All institutions needed to be democratised

Question 23

What was his goal for the new country?

Answer 23

Gradual Africanisation and development

Question 24

What visions did he not share with Kasavubu?

Answer 24

Federation of state based on ethnicity

Question 25

What visions did he not share with Tshome?

Answer 25

Loose Federation of state

Question 26

Who was Tshome backed by?

Answer 26

Belgian mining magnates in Katanga

Question 27

Who did the Congolese people prefer to support?

Answer 27

Ethnic leaders rather than a national leader

Question 28

Was Lumumba greatly supported?

Answer 28

Not a lot of support by the Congolese people and not a lot of international support

Question 29

When was he assassinated?

Answer 29

Seven months after Congo attained independence

Question 30

What was he involved in with the struggles of his country?

Answer 30

Anticolonial struggles and it was a freedom fighter

Question 31

What was he the only leader with the idea of?

Answer 31

National unity – idea of United Congo was unyielding

Question 32

What could he has he done in terms Alfara nations?

Answer 32

Prevent exploitation of the resources from foreign nations

Question 33

What quality may have been responsible for his ultimate down for?

Answer 33

Bold and decisive as a leader

Question 34

What is his lack of experience lead to?

Answer 34

Errors of judgement

Question 35

What huge error of judgement did he make it?

Answer 35

Criticising Belgium at Independence Day celebrations

Question 36

What did the criticism of the Belgium's lead to?

Answer 36

Belgium against Congo

Question 37

Why did the west not like him?

Answer 37

Assistance from the USSR made him look procommunist

Question 38

When was he disposed as a prime minister?

Answer 38

14 September 1960

Question 39

Who was he disposed by?

Answer 39

Mobutu

Question 40

How long was the prime minister for?

Answer 40

67 days

Question 41

Where did you continue to live?

Answer 41

Leopoldville at the prime minister's residence

Question 42

Who was the member guarded by?

Answer 42

In a group of UN troops to prevent his arrest and

Question 43

Who wanted to prevent his escape?

Answer 43

Outer ing of Mobutu's soldiers

Question 44

Where did he escape to?

Answer 44

Stanley evil but he was a

Question 45

Where was he placed after his arrest?

Answer 45

Military prison

Question 46

In military prison what did Kasavubu offer him to join?

Answer 46

To join the government again but he refused

Question 47

After his refuse or where was he sent?

Answer 47

Elizabeth Ville in Katanga - Tshombe

Question 48

When was the announcement of his death made?

Answer 48

A month after his Muda

Question 49

Who uncovered the truth of his death?

Answer 49

Historian Ludo de Witte - 2000

Question 50

Who is responsible for his death?

Answer 50

The Belgian government

Question 51

What shows that Belgium was behind the succession of Katanga

Answer 51

Documents in Brussels to protect the economic interest

Question 52

What did Lumumba want during the mutiny of Publique Force?

Answer 52

Belgian troops to with draw – did not