by Thomas Kanza

"Despite his brief political career and tragic death--or perhaps because of them--Lumumba entered history through the front door: he became both a flag and a symbol. He lived as a freeman, and an independent thinker. Everything he wrote, said and did was the product of someone who knew his vocation to be that of a liberator, and he represents for the Congo what Castro does for Cuba, Nasser for Egypt, Nkurman for Ghana, Mao Tse-tung for China, and Lenin for Russia."