Death in the Congo.

Patrice Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo. A feat he was part of early in his political career; his Pan-African beliefs were essential in forming a government consisting of various tribes. The Congo was entering the new world at a stage where resources and the knowledge to manipulate them into commodities was what gave a nation the edge in development.


His final days, the nature of his demise, the social context of the Congo and the impact his killers had on the people prior, during and after Lumumba's death were very sensitive and visceral. Upon his families capture in a failed attempt to seize him, he would turn himself in to the Belgian, American and UK agents that sought to insulate their interests with his demise. They would torture, kill and dispose of his remains. Pinning his death on a tribal dispute.