Tetela singers perform during the funeral ceremony of slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba at the Limete Tower in Kinshasa on Thursday, more than 61 years after his assassination. Photograph: Arsene Mpiana/AFP via Getty ImagesThe gold-topped tooth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, was buried on Thursday in an emotional ceremony held as the country marked the 62nd anniversary of its independence.
Lumumba was an independence hero whose leadership of the central African country was short-lived after, aged just 34, he made a speech marking the DRC’s first independence day in 1960, in which he condemned Belgium for holding his country in “humiliating slavery”. Millions of people perished under colonial rule, particularly between 1885 and 1908, when Belgium’s King Leopold II controlled the DRC as his personal fiefdom.
The procession carrying slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba's only surviving remains arrives at the Limete Tower in Kinshasa on Thursday. Photograph: Arsene Mpiana/AFP via Getty Images In his last letter to his wife, written from Thysville prison in what was then Leopoldville, Lumumba wrote that the only thing he had wanted for his country was “the right to a worthy life, to dignity without pretence, to independence without restrictions”.
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