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Pauline Opango married Patrice Lumumba on March 15, 1951, at the age of 14. She was his third wife, bore him four children, named Patrice, Juliana, Roland and Marie-Christine. It was an at times a difficult relationship, and the couple were separated by Patrice's imprisonment on more than one occasion. Pauline never remarried, reportedly ...
Aug 20, 2014 · The South African artist explains how a photograph of the grieving widow of an assassinated Congolese leader prompted three separate works, including a pair of paintings from 2013.
Dec 23, 2014 · KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The widow of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister whose assassination more than 50 years ago made him a liberation symbol worldwide, has died, the country's government spokesman said Tuesday.
Jun 30, 2020 · With the assassination of Lumumba and several of his close advisers, Blouin was sentenced to death. She fled once again, this time to Paris where she lived in exile until her death in 1986.
Taken from a military prison in Thysville, where in typical fashion he had almost fast-talked his guards into mutiny, Lumumba was flown to Elisabethville, hauled out and savagely beaten by...
Patrice Émery Lumumba (/ l ʊ ˈ m ʊ m b ə / ⓘ; 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 ...
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Apr 1, 2002 · She may be "the forgotten widow", but on 5 February, when Belgium was offering its official "regrets" and "excuses" for its role in the assassination of Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, his widow, Pauline Opango, now 64, was in Belgium to hear it for herself.
