Lumumba Plot News Today

On this episode of American Prestige, a discussion about the downfall of the first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Patrice Lumumba was a major figure of post-colonial Africa. When the country known today as Democratic Republic of Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960, Lumumba became the country’s first prime minister. But his death less than a year later involved more than one culprit. A new book by Foreign Affairs Magazine Executive Editor Stuart Reid examines the evidence of US

As Congolese citizens go to the polls, Stuart Reid’s ‘Lumumba Plot’ reminds the world of a crime that reshaped the country’s future.

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history,...

Foreign Affairs Executive Editor Stuart Reid discusses his new book, The Lumumba Plot, which follows the dramatic history of the Congo in 1960 on the edge of its independence from Belgium, the ensuin…

Through careful archival exploration and oral historical documentation, his novel uncovers previously unknown elements of the crises occurring throughout the Congo to reexamine the historical narrative. 

Isaac Chotiner reviews “The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination,” by Stuart A. Reid.

Patrice Lumumba was an inspirational hero to millions of his countrymen.

Reid, a veteran journalist and current editor of “Foreign Affairs,” uses his extensive experience reporting on international relations to craft an incisive narrative that sheds light on Lumumba’s rise to power, later national crises and the eventual CIA campaign to depose him.

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