Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

by Pedro Monaville

Book Overview

On June 30, 1960--the day of the Congo's independence--Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018372
• ISBN13: 9781478018377
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"