Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba’s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists.  But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo’s decolonization.  What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle?  Were masculinist biases re-inscribed in later depictions of the martyred nationalist?  Through analysis of Lumumba’s writings...