No. 5 (2023): Global Lumumba. Looking back at the construction of an international icon
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Issue coordinated by Élisabeth Dikizeko (Imaf, Paris) and Karine Ramondy (Sirice, Paris)
RHCA editorial coordination by Romain Tiquet
This new issue of RHCA is not intended as a biography of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961), the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo. Indeed, this issue seeks less to draw up a historiographical account of the rise and fall of the Congolese leader, or of the Congolese crisis (1960-1965), than to understand the genealogy of a global phenomenon based on the "Lumumba" object of study. As such, this dossier seeks to grasp the scope and significance of Lumumba's name around the world through a variety of materials, in order to understand the mechanisms of the international construction of an African political figure, known worldwide not least because of his assassination.