The crocodiles gathered
Neal Ascherson: Patrice Lumumba, 4 October 2001
The Assassination of Lumumba
by Ludo DeWitte, translated by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby.
Verso, 224 pp., £17, July 2001,1 85984 618 1 Show More
by Ludo DeWitte, translated by Ann Wright and Renée Fenby.
Verso, 224 pp., £17, July 2001,
“... joined in the applause. In Leopoldville, everything went immediately and hideously off the rails.Ludo DeWitte’s description makes clear that this derailment was far more than a spoiled ritual. Within minutes, it had torn the mask off Africa’s future relationship to the West and released all the ill-suppressed ... ”
