[pnh102]

Some snarling little fool who calls himself `Patrice Lumumba’. Google that name, just for giggles.

Wow... that WAS funny. That guy is more proof that most of Africa was better off under colonial rule.

[elcid1970]

You checked it out. Great!

I was a kid then, but I watched on TV as Congolese independence in 1960 dissolved into civil war.

Joseph Mobutu eventually triumphed after offing Lumumba, who would have turned Congo into a Cuban style Soviet client state. He also arranged the capture and exile of Moise Tchombe of Katanga, the only good guy in that entire fracas.

“Patrice Lumumba University” in Moscow trains Third World subversives to this very day, in the “new” Russia.