Patrice Lumumba: Black Revolutionary and Pan-African Visionary

Patrice Lumumba portrait on Guinean 10 syli (1971) banknote (Shutterstock). The Black revolutionary Patrice Lumumba was born on this day in 1925 in the Congo. A permanent fixture in the pantheon of Black Revolutionary leaders of the twentieth century, Lumumba provides a visionary blueprint for African liberation and Pan-African solidarity.

The post-World…