Lumumba's coffin visits Kisangani, where Congo's first premier found his way

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KISHANGANI (DR Congo), June 24 — After a rest in his native village, the coffin of the former Belgian Congo's first post-independence prime minister today pursued its...

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KISHANGANI , June 24 — After a rest in his native village, the coffin of the former Belgian Congo's first post-independence prime minister today pursued its memorial pilgrimage to the northeastern city of Kisangani.

His body was dissolved in acid after he was killed, but a Belgian police officer kept the tooth as a trophy. Belgian authorities in 2016 seized the relic from his daughter.It was then placed inside a coffin for the funeral tour, 61 years late.In a small room inside a brick building known as"1925" in Kisangani, the shelves are stacked with records and works of the colonial administration in Stanleyville, as Kisangani used to be called.

Joseph Lifaefi, head of an office that watches over the property, says he has heard talk of"a tourist site, but nothing concrete". "My father was the first to welcome him," said Pauline Kimbulu, daughter of Paul Kimbulu, one of the few qualified nurses from colonial days."Let someone restore this house."As years passed, Lumumba gained confidence and"strength of conviction" matched with eloquence and easy charm, according to Belgian cultural historian and journalist David Van Reybrouck in his prize-winning work"Congo, the Epic History of a People".

Leader of a trade union branch, head of a local association of"evolved" minds, author of political analyses and newspaper columns, Lumumba also possessed what Van Reybrouck described as"extreme ambition".

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