Patrice lumumba biography brevenal

Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July , 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. 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 However, Lumumba was accused of embezzlement and was jailed in Due to an extensive interview with King Baud Patrice lumumba biography congolese!