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The Congo After Leopold

Behind the Bastards

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Patrice Emery Lumumba - The Man Who Changed His Name

Patrice Emery Lumumba is a hero to very large numbers of people, particularly Africans. He was born on July 2nd, 1925 in a small village in a part of the Congo called the Cassai Oriental. As a young adult he lived in Stanleyville named after a frequent bastard podcast side character Henry Morton Stanley. Patrice's passion today would be a podcast but back then it was anti colonial activism.

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