24/08/2026
Africa Cup of Nations, 2023. A footballer mocked Patrice Lumumba's statue β mimicked being shot, fell down, laughed.
Africa did not laugh with him. Africa erupted.
Because you don't mock Patrice Lumumba. Not among people who know what was done to him.
He was Congo's first prime minister. He stood in front of a Belgian king and told the truth about colonialism β on live television, unscripted. Ten months later he was dead: captured, beaten on camera, shot by a firing squad, his body dissolved in acid by the men who killed him.
CIA cables called his removal "urgent." The man who replaced him ruled Congo β and looted it β for 32 years, backed by the West the entire time.
This is the full story of why Patrice Lumumba was killed, and why Africa still hasn't forgiven the world for it. Full video π₯π