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Patrice Lumumba's tooth finally arrives in DRC

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Patrice Lumumba's tooth finally arrives in DRC An official burial ceremony will take place in Kinshasa on June 30, to mark the Democratic Republic of Congo's 61st year of independence by S_Fleary1

Guy-Patrice Lumumba the son of the slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba pays respects to the coffin of his father upon its arrival in Tshumbe, Democratic republic of Congo.

His tooth has been in Belgium ever-since, after it was kept as a trophy by Gérard Soete a former Belgian police commissioner. He became the country’s first democratically elected prime minister and the face of the struggle against colonialism in Africa., it was announced that Belgian authorities returned the tooth to Mr Lumumba’s family at a private ceremony at the Egmont Palace in Brussels.

In 2020, Juliana Lumumba, daughter of the pan-African leader, demanded her father’s tooth be returned to her family and homeland for a proper burial.

 

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