Patrice Lumumba (July 2, 1925 – January 17, 1961) was more than the Congo’s first Prime Minister—he was a revolutionary whose words shook empires. From his electrifying independence speech to challenging Cold War powers, Lumumba’s fight for true sovereignty was relentless. But his courage made him a target: arrested, brutally executed, and, in one of history’s darkest acts, dismembered and erased from official memory. Declassified documents later revealed the foreign hand behind his assassinatio