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Patrice Lumumba was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. But his martyrdom has made him as much the face of Pan-Africanism as MLK’s has made him the face of Black civil rights. This is why even I can appreciate the “closure” the return of Lumumba’s remains represents for his family. Never… Read more.
I know that’s a provocative title. But nothing justifies it quite like the true story about the origins of Ebola. It just so happens that National Geographic is dramatizing that story in a TV series called the The Hot Zone. It premieres tonight. That said, With the Democratic Republic of Congo facing its deadliest Ebola… Read more.
It speaks volumes that the raping of thousands is becoming a more defining feature of the civil/regional war still brewing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) than the killing of millions. (This war began in 1998 and officially ended in 2003….) According to the UN Population Fund, there were 17,507 sexual violence attacks throughout… Read more.
