The Congo of the Belgians -- Independence -- The empire strikes back -- The Cold War comes to Africa -- Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN -- The government falls -- Mobutu -- Africans against Lumumba -- The Central Intelligence Agency -- The return of the Belgians -- Lumumba imperiled -- Killing Lumumba -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on sources
Summary
More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people--black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American--bear responsibility for this crime
