Patrice Lumumba, the assassinated first Prime Minister of the Congo.
Documents from the archives of D'Lynn Waldron, Scripps-Howard foreign correspondent in the Belgian Congo, who was confided in by Patrice Lumumba just prior to Independence.
BACK TO D'LYNN WALDRON AUTHOR PAGE......LUMUMBA CONTENTS PAGE .....ANOTHER PAGE OF LUMUMBA'S TATEMENTS
LUMUMBA'S OWN STATEMENTS ABOUT HIS POLICIES FOR THE CONGO IN A DOCUMENT TYPED IN HIS HOME IN STANLEYVILLE
D'Lynn Waldron was a foreign correspondent in Stanleyille, Belgian Congo in the spring of 1960, just prior to Independence. D'Lynn posed the questions below, and others, to Patrice Lumumba. The original pages have her handwriting in French using Lumumba's fountain pen with green ink. Lumumba's answers were typed in the space under each question. D'Lynn stood beside Lumumba while he answered her questions and he made additional verbal explanations to her about his answers.
CONTENTS PAGE: LUMUMBA, THE CONGO, AND ALL OF AFRICA
THE CONGO & AFRICA
articles and commentaries by D'Lynn Waldron ©2006
NOTE: MANY OF THESE PAGES CONTAIN FULL SIZE DOCUMENTS AND ARE VERY LARGE. IF YOU ARE ON BROADBAND THIS WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM, BUT IF YOU ARE ON A DIAL-UP MODEM, SOME PAGES WILL TAKE A MINUTE OR MORE TO LOAD.
D'LYNN WALDRON'S PHOTOS AND SKETCHES OF AFRICA
.........A large gallery of Africa Photographs
........OLD PICTURE MAP OF THE MAJOR TRIBES OF THE PRE-COLONIAL CONGO
Lumumba, the assassinated first Prime Minister of the Congo.
........Lumumba in Stanleyville- D 'Lynn Waldron's 1960 headline story
........D'Lynn Waldron's commentary on this written in 2001
........Lumumba's telegram regarding troops being brought in, etc.
........D'Lynn Waldron's commentary on her time in the Congo written in 2001
.......D'Lynn Waldron's report on conflict between General Jannsens and Patrice Lumumba
.......Refusals of Belgian Administration to transmit D'Lynn Waldron's press cables about Lumumba
.......TIME Magazine's slanders of Patrice Lumumba May 1960
........A GALLERY OF PICTURES OF PATRICE LUMUMBA
........Response to a reader asking why Lumumba was assassinated
.......Raoul Peck's movie "Lumumba" a discussion by D'Lynn Waldron
.......Ludo De Witt's book "The Assassination of Lumumba" a brief review by D'Lynn Waldron
.......E-Mail with historical data concerning her father and family from Dorothee Gizenga
THE TRIBAL WAR IN THE KASAI.
.........The Tribal War In Luluabourg- D'Lynn Waldron's 1960 headline story
.........Kasai section of D'Lynn Waldron's book "Secret in the Heart of Darkness"
........Henry N. Taylor killed filling in for D'Lynn Waldron in Luluabourg the Congo
........Journeys on the Congo and Kasa i Rivers
D'LYNN WALDRON'S ESCAPE FROM SOUTH AFRICA