Patrice Lumumba Independence Day Speech (June 30, 1960)
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- Few speeches have marked our history as much as that given by the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba on 30 June 1960, the day that Congo achieved its independence.
This speech could be considered the birth certificate of modern Congo, a country that was then emerging from eighty years of colonialism and which looked with confidence to its future.
In Africa this speech is considered one of the key moments in propelling the continent onto the international stage. In the West, many have seen it as a call to arms opening up Belgian-Congolese hostilities, plunging this former Belgian colony into chaos.
A chaos marked by the fall of the Lumumba government in 1960 and, the following year, by the assassination of the man considered in Congo to be the country’s first ‘national hero’.
I am Belgian and I will honour and remember Lumumba and aid current fights for more equality. In the memory of Lumumba
RIP to a great leader. I wish in US schools we were taught more about African history. It is shameful that we are not. The fate of humanity lies with the fate of Africa
You can't teach US citizens too much about the history of any continent, lest they realise how many coups, invasions and assassinations their government has perpetrated across the globe.
Sorry
I am an African American woman and I honor the great legacy of Patrice Lumumba. May he rise up in the spirit of our people!
And what are you doing to keep his legacy alive ,now?
As a white American, I couldn’t agree more
Patrice Lumumba lives
@@MustacheCashStash125 you Know who control the US government behind the scenes?
Or have you forgotten the warning from Thomas Jefferson, John Adam, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Morse, la Fayette etc...????
From Egypt
He was and still hero that we all Africans should be proud of
Congolese in egypt. I appreciate what u said
Im cameroonian african i love all my brothers and sisters❤❤
And so is Field Marshal Anwar El-Sadat great men of Alkebulan.
I'm from México. I read so much about Lumumba, and I deeply admire him. I was looking for his speech so i could deliver it to my English class.
It was so difficult to find it. USA doesn't want us to know his obscure history.
Best of look, congolense brothers. Big hug from Latín America
God bless you my Mexican brother. This man fearless and a Thorn in white men's fresh
Please congolese people keep the spirit of this man alive in your country.
Yes, He is our only one Heros.
@@germainlutuku50 for real,am Zambian and i look up to jim too!
Not only Congolese people, but all of us as Africans should keep this man's name and his delegates names relevant today and for generations to come.
@@germainlutuku50 price
In my point of view, Congolese people got what they deserve.
It’s really hard in 2020 to grasp the powerful nerve and audacity to deliver this speech in that time with several obviously powerful displeased racist. That’s the kind of nerve we need from black leaders around the world.
hell, romelu lukaku and others will play for Belgium and not he Congo, making Belgium the strongest football team in the world. Same with all there western nations. UK, Netherlands, France, he US. Its embarrassing.
they kill them faster that they can come into formation
@@malikleighesq.forwatsonlei8695 ???? What does it have to do? Footbal and Independace are not the same.
His spirit definitely still lives in PLO LUMUMBA a Kenyan law professor and political corruption watchdog. He's the reason I know about the original Lumumba whom he was named after. Check him out if u haven't already
@@bomajoel1919 if you were alive in his days ,you would have had different opinion..
If only you knew how many Vatican army were in Congo disguised as religious group using Belgium to carry Pope's agenda. Then you would have understood that there was nothing you could have done in secret without them knowing.
Can't stop crying 😭😭😭 when listening to his speech
Me too
Me too.
2020 and tears row down my eyes. We are still where we are. Our children prefer to go and live with the supreme oppressors rather than work hands in gloves to fix motheland
That’s the sad part of world, the US imperialist powers won’t everything, including the people from your country, and various other places. The US doesn’t view them as people just another way to keep power and make an x amount of profit.
It is NOT as simple as you put it
Can't really blame them when you have awful leaders running the countries
@❤❤kristellebeauboeuf3917
I enjoyed every bit of his speech. It's interesting that as an African living in Africa, I am just reading about him today
Not surprised..many African have wrong knowledge..may God have mercy on us
Ase'o ✊🏿. We are slowly getting there ❤
Great Speech by a great African. The Spirit of Patrice Emery Lumumba lives on.Down with Belgium, down with Amerikkka, down with France,down with Imperialism.
The Roman Catholic Church was involved.
Such a tragic and inspiring person
@DLH that's what I wanna know.. They probably meant his demise was tragic
This speech should have been said to all colonial powers. And for the audacity of saying it they killed him but not his idealism which lives on and will continue to inspire all lovers of freedom.
A true hero man, this speech made me cry.... Long live Patrice Lumumba love from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
what a man Patrice Lumumba was. He will never be forgotten.
He's already forgotten, since he was murdered.
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Good day from the States. Mr. Lumumba's words are still stirring 63 years later.
The same people who cheered him, brought an end to this national hero....God bless Patrice Lumumba.m, amen.
The greatest speech ever filled with sharp double-edged sword of truism and sincerity. Let This be a note to Africans that we must wake up! We slumber much too often.
And he wasn't allowed to speak..he spoke on his own authority. No black man was ever allowed to speak without permission...the Belgium king called it a slap on our face.
What a great man with no fear of demons surrounding him.
💯❤️🇯🇲our struggles continue to be FREE FROM COLONIALISM………FREEDOM TO ALL THE PEOPLE …………NOT JUST TO THE FEW.
Greatest man that has ever walked the African Continent 👏🏾👏🏾😭
Indeed
What a heart rending but uplifting eloquent Independence Day speech.
Not one word of lie -
just the unadorned truth.
No one around today of the
same calibre.
RIP Brave Heart.
I believe there are others in whom we can have confidence. Notably, H. E. President Dr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, of Tanzania, and H.E. President Andrei Rahjolina, of Madagascar, for example.
You can’t help but she’d tears, I’m Forever Fighting! 😤🇨🇩
History have remembered today . I also pray that Good God will give you entire family the heart to bear the lost. U are really truely hero
A true hero of our world. His life is an example for all justice seekers. My respect to Patrice Lumumba. Long Live Congo!! Long Live Africa!
Wow! We learned about such speeches. Its encouraging to hear such powerful man. Wake up Africa. The world has never changed. We need to be aware of all kinds of schemes of the enemies.
Brought tears to my eyes❤️
We miss you so much Patrick Lumumba ,R I P
The best True African leader
We still need leaders like this HERO
He lived as a human being,but he was an enjoy sent by God himself to the Congolese people
What a powerful speech 💯💯💯👊🏽👊🏽 Africa when will you wake up???????💔
Rip brother. Our opressers unfortunately have never Left us. Still opressed mentally, spiritually and economically
Great LEADER Patrice Lumumba is icon of AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE,era of political Leaders who without fear and favour fought tirelessly for the freedom of their people.They had to put their Lives & the Lives of their families & property at risk for the good of their countries,And now independence is enjoyed by all Generations,we are very Grateful of these national Heroes 🏟️🆗👍❤️.
I love this man, long live Patrice Lumumba we will never forget him❤️🖤💚
We need leaders like him.
What a courage this man had. There is an old Soviet song on honour of this great man: Patrice Lumumba. May he RIP.
We have to continue the work of our Ancestors! Long live independence and African Unity!!
Happy 60th independence day
really?
I love Patrice Lumumba forever 💕💕, RIP beloved man!
Long live Lumumba! I'm from Gambia and I want someone to help me visit the family of Lumumba in Congo
What a powerful speech.....no sucking up to the whites like most other leaders of newly independent nations did.
Not only that but he refused to be corrupt
He wasn't allowed to speak..he spoke by his own authority. What a fearless man he was. Didn't worship a white 😈
I almost cried. Lumumba was truly a great man.
This must have been a great day to look forward to, being in the audience, being in the presence of Pateice Limumba, giving a powerful, roaring speech, declaring the sovereignty, independence and autonomy of the Congo I wish I was there, even if i dont understand him, the strength, vigour and veracity in his voice, tells me, what he means a day to behold I wish I could of attended the Independence Day of many African nations, including, Ghana, Kenya, to name a few, to see kwame Nkrummah and Jomo Kenyatta deliver the speech, that forever changes, there nations history is mind blowing independence de Congo, 🇨🇩😄
I ❤ Africa
I had always known of the atrocities committed to the Congolese by Leopold. But this, this is one of the best speeches I have ever heard. And they killed him for it. Disgusting.
The they who killed him was the CIA
@@pumkinphillips1269 and Belgians and other enemies from Congo
Long live the Congo, long live the ideals of Mr Patrice Lumumba. Afrika for Afrikans!
28 years old and I’m just now hearing about him, I’m thankful
Death took away one of the very best Africa leaders of all time,shame that Mobutu who was fully involved never did anything good for his country.May Patrice' soul live forever.
Brother Your right!! You’re so Right ✊🏾
Viva patrice lumumba, viva. Our hero.Ruby South africa
This speech deserves more likes. Lumumba was so brave & smart to speak the truth in front of the Congo's oppressors
Grand homme nous somme tous sur le chemin que tu a tracer nous jeunes congolais conscient nous n allons pas baisser les bras🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩💪💪💪❤️🥰
Gone but not forgotten
he spoke truth to those devils and they killed him.
Besides Nelson Rolihlala Mandela Patrice Lumumba is the second African freedom fighter that I learned about when I was twenty two years young.
This year I got to see Congo from afar when I was in Tanzania.
You Are Alive In Spirit. The Struggle Is Being Continued By Us. We Won't Stop
This speech 💬 must be Mandatory Curriculum in all Congolese Schools 🏫 for ever and all of Africa 🌍 and African Black ⚫ World..... Especially in the African American Community in America 🇺🇸.....
WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
Long Live the Lion of the Congo
Words have it that it’s this speech that He gave set in notion the brutal assassination of Him by the old colonial administrators.
I come here straight after i listen the song STORY OF LUMUMBA by Kao Denero a Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 hip pop musician
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 💔 rest in peace role model we will carry on your legacy your death won't be in vain and one day you will look down and be proud of what you have started
Unfortunately the dead are in the state of non-existence. They can't look down.
Beautiful Speech by a very powerful man.
Amazing speech, really made the oppressors uncomfortable
beautiful
Not-so-fun fact: Patrice Lumumba's murder caused some of the largest riots in Yugoslavia's history. Even te Belgian embassy was raided and sacked.
Hero
Rest in Power.
He knew he would have been marked for death after the speech
Long Live the Great mans Spirit!
Rest In Peace, President Lumumba
He was a Brave man, may he RIP. Look at Congo now 😒
Il aurait fallu ce discours. Discours qui a même précédé I have a dream. Mais on ne nous a jamais fait retenir ce discours histoire. Triste pour notre sort
As a turk, i proud of Lumumba. Congoese people must fight for his ideas and never forget his legacy. RIP
Exactly, I always promote his philosophy
Long live Lumumba. Merci for sharing. #AfRaKanPower
We still needed you
His blood will be upon those who plotted and murdered this great leader.
Where they could have been as a powerful independent nation if it was not for his plotted demise.
They killed him because he was an African hero and also a revolutionary rising star ⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟
2023 south africa lumunba
There might have been people in that crowd whose parents remembered the time before Leopold.
RIP my prophet and hero🙏🏾
Rest in piece Lumumba 🇨🇩. love from Morocco 🇲🇦♥️
Well said
It was too early for him to attack the Colonials in his maiden speech. He should have waited till he fully consolidated his post. He was too young and inexperienced.
At least his advisers should have advised him of that. That is Africa. That is Congo surrounded by so many countries, and tribes Anything can turn things around.
So sad. A genius taken away from his people by his own people.
This speech liberated Africa so if he waited the Colonial Government would not have gone, .....Although many African nations have gone through chaos and wars and colonialism is still there, the colonial system has perished with the support of freedom fighters like Patrice Lamumba,,,, Long live the independence of Congo ,,,, A O from Somaliland
My dear Jaime Z, PL is never taken away, he is alive and his people are proud of him and other F Fighters like him
Since the assassination of Lumumba, congo has never known peace
R.I.P.
AND LONG LIVE PATRICE LUMUMBA!
RIP
He was the victim of Allen Dulles and Western Imperialism.
What a speech. Shu. No wonder they had to eliminate him. He was going to be a very big problem. He had to die. Shuu.
Patrice’s story is tragic. behind every leader are political workings and motivations, but it was clear as day, regardless of how he was labelled, that Patrice would tirelessly pursue the goal of his nation being able to stand independently.
most of the West is guilty for turning away from Patrice, but shame on the Belgians especially for doing almost everything in their power to delegitimize and dismantle Patrice and his government, just so they can install a bobble-head styled yes man government.
The thing that pains me the most about countries in Africa is that we never get to just speak our own languages. He opens his mouth and it's French... it hurts so much what colonisers have done and continue to do
Independence du Congo le 30/june/1960 in 2020
CIA and The Belgian government arranged the whole plot,We Africans will never forget our beloved African son, Patrice Lumumba.
This is why peace will always be difficulty in the congo because you murdered an innocent blood that was liberating you from slavery, the all country need to pray and ask for forgiveness
The speech reminds me of the I have a dream speech by MLK.
RIP
I wish we didn't have to speak using the oppressors' language
mobutu used to speak lingala in his speeches
Right it’s sad but I’m working to tech myself everything else
They know that we will pre-empt...
Hello!
Maybe you can help me to establish the truth. In the Russian version of the Wikipedia article about Patrice Lumumba, it is indicated that the speech about independence was ended with the phrase "Nous ne sommes plus vos singes". But the only source of this phrase that I managed to find - "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita" - is not very reputable, to be honest. But in the video on your channel, this phrase is not. What do you know about this? Thanks in advance!
Lumumba never said that. That line was added by the Russians as part of their way of praising Lumumba and throwing a dig at the west. It's been misquoted even by scholars.
@@kmmedia_Docs Thank you! you confirmed my guesses
@@kuzubek Lumumba said exactly that. I am a Congolese and I know what he said
@@iskaykabeya609 it's interesting! Can you find proof of it?
@@iskaykabeya609 So am I and he never said it.
That was an impromptu speech, I learned. 😦 He was not scheduled to speak. It's hard to watch that and know what happened after the speech. He's right in everything he says, but he wasn't a good diplomat who thought about the concrete tomorrow after.
what is the source of the video?
who shot it?
I don't know? BBC maybe?
France Belgium US and British all have bloods on their hands we will never forget all the crimes