Full Name
Date of Birth
2 July 1925(1)(2)
Date of Death
17 January 1961(1)(2)(3)
Place of Birth
Onalua, Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)(1)(2)
Place of Death
Katanga province, [Democratic Republic of the Congo](2)(3)
Education
Lumumba had only rudimentary schooling and was largely self-educated. He attended both Protestant and Catholic schools run by white Belgian missionaries(1)(2)(5).
Spouses Names
Pauline Opango Lumumba (married on 15 March 1951)(8).
Children Names
Patrice, Juliana, Roland, and Marie-Christine Lumumba(8).
Parents Names
Julienne Wamato Lomendja and François Tolenga Otetshima(1).
Known Affiliates Names
Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Antoine Gizenga, Moise Tshombe, [Joseph Mobutu](2)(4).
Affiliated Organizations’ Names
Congolese National Movement (Mouvement National Congolais; MNC)(4).
Citations: [1] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patrice-Lumumba [2] https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-patrice-lumumba-die [3] https://www.cia.gov/static/a2daf84167fa3fb7fce02f304e0b888d/Review-Death-in-Congo.pdf [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Crisis [6] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-lumumba-assassination-and-cia-accountability [7] https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/1959-patrice-lumumba-african-unity-and-national-independence/ [8] https://www.jstor.org/stable/24483553 [9] https://www.semafor.com/article/10/08/2023/the-cias-role-in-congo-leader-patrice-lumumbas-assassination [10] https://news.un.org/en/spotlight/patrice-lumumba-brian-urquhart [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo [12] https://www.aaihs.org/sold-to-africa/ [13] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/02/magazine/the-cia-and-lumumba.html [14] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/congo-decolonization [15] https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/10/patrice-lumumba-plot-book-assassination-death/675732/ [16] https://www.thecollector.com/patrice-lumumba-congo/ [17] https://jacobin.com/2021/11/us-cia-intervention-africa-white-malice-susan-williams-book-review [18] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/the-lumumba-plot-the-secret-history-of-the-cia-and-a-cold-war-assassination-stuart-a-reid-book-review