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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Patrice Lumumba

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

“We must set ourselves to search ceaselessly for truth in all its forms. Truth is the only means by which we can contribute to our spiritual and intellectual development.”

Patrice Lumumba, born 2 July 1925.

Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only twelve weeks later, his government was deposed in a coup, and he was subsequently murdered, for his opposition to the Belgian-backed secession of the mineral-rich Katanga province.

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