The Truth About Patrice Lumumba They Don’t Teach in School 🧠💣

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]In June [music] 1960, the Congo gained independence from Belgium. 23 days later, they elected their [music] first Prime Minister. His name was Patrice Lumumba. Within 2 months, the United States had ordered him killed. Lumumba was 35 years [music] old. A self-taught political leader who stood before his nation on Independence Day and said directly to the Belgian king sitting in the room that colonialism was humiliation. That it was over.

[00:00:27]>> [music] >> The West never forgave him for it.

[00:00:29]President Eisenhower personally authorized his assassination. [music] The CIA station chief in Leopoldville received the order. He procured poison [music] intended for Lumumba's food or toothpaste. This is in the official United States Congressional Record. Not a theory. [music] The receipts exist. Before the CIA could act, Belgian intelligence helped [music] his political rivals arrest him. He was beaten during his arrest. Beaten on the plane. Beaten on arrival.

[00:00:59]On January 17th, 1961, he was shot by a firing squad in Katanga [music] Province. Then his body was dissolved in sulfuric acid. So no burial site could become a memorial. He was 35 years old.

[00:01:12]Prime Minister [music] for less than 3 months. Belgium acknowledged their role in 2002.

[00:01:17]>> [music] >> No one was prosecuted. In 2022, they returned a single tooth to his family 61 years later. A tooth. After Lumumba, the CIA [music] backed a dictator named Mobutu for 32 years. The Congo stayed poor. The resources kept leaving. The extraction [music] never stopped. It just changed its name. His name was Patrice Lumumba. Now you know it. This is Black Knowledge. [music] Download our app. Search Black Knowledge on Google Play and the Apple App Store. Like this.

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[00:01:51]>> [music] >> Drop his name in the comments.