Born on this day in 1925, Patrice Emery Lumumba was only 36 when he was brutally assassinated. The outspoken and charismatic revolutionary was the first legally elected prime minister of the Republic of Congo after he helped the country gain its independence from Belgium in 1960. Lumumba was inspired by the independence movement of Africa...

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