Lumumba: Congolese anti-colonial icon who angered Belgian king

Morocco's late king Mohamed V decorates Patrice Lumumba in Rabat on August 8, 1960


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  • He was among the vanguard of pan-African leaders who led the charge to end colonialism in Africa in the late 1950s.

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