
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton. Author of Africa: The Politics of Independence.
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Patrice Lumumba was an African nationalist leader, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (June–September 1960). Forced out of office during a political crisis, he was assassinated a short time later. Lumumba was born in the village of Onalua in Kasai province, Belgian…
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