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...As the casket was carried into Lumumba’s family residence in Kinshasa, I was there as some two dozen women sang in Lingala: “Who ordered the death of Lumumba?”...
...For the liberal that I am, it is unacceptable. And for the human that I am, it is odious.”...
...I enjoyed reading David Honigmann’s piece on “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” (Life of a Song, FT Weekend, March 11)....
...The 2022 work “The Relay (Vancouver 1954 Revised)” is from an ongoing project Nkosi is creating about the Commonwealth Games....
...I don’t have much more to say about that either, because Jim Pickard has got there already too. I think it’s increasingly clear that Sunak is cooked in any case....
...That same year a Belgian court cleared the way for the independent country’s first prime minister Patrice Lumumba’s tooth, his only remains, to be returned to Lumumba’s family....
...Our heroes are those who died young, whose Africa never came into being: Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Tom Mboya. Touched with fire, we are daring to invent the future....
...With a caution to watch out for “the elders at the front”, Nkosi ordered the crowd to mosh....
...A call to action Nkosi concluded: “I’m only satisfied if there is a young person in every big meeting. Young people are the world’s most precious natural resource....
...“When I was 14, 15, I already knew the direction I wanted to head,” he says. Last year, the 25-year-old’s debut album, For(e)ward, was released as part of a father-and-son double album, Legacy +....
...I requested boxes that contained letters cited in the Belgian parliament’s 2000-01 commission on the assassination of Congo’s first prime minister Patrice Lumumba in 1961....
...Among the artists she has bought are Nolan Dennis, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Bronwyn Katz, Donna Kukama, Cinga Samson, Igshaan Adams, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Malawi-born Billie Zangewa, the Nigerian, British-based...
...We were poised for a glorious future, as imagined in the empowering words of our independence hero, Patrice Lumumba. But Lumumba paid for our freedom with his life....
...Each clock face features a photograph of a different leader, ranging from Nelson Mandela and the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba to the Libyan despot Muammar Ghaddafi....
...He explains in this fascinating column why — on the 60th anniversary of winning independence from colonial rule under the leadership of Patrice Lumumba (above, centre) — the Congolese have been left with...
...When a boiler-suited Jovi Nkosi surveyed the half-empty arena and declared “I have a feeling it’s going to be a legendary one,” it sounded like hubris....
...In 1961 it was named after Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, who had been executed that January....
...“Plus I can use them to experiment and be a bit more playful, they don’t need to be masterworks.” Nando’s is behind other forms of patronage that often stem from an artist’s Creative Block commitment....
...I focused my craft so that I could use my gift to inspire thought, relay ideas and tell stories of our struggle, our work, our liberation.”...
...I can’t sleep at night because of these blues.” The music crashed to false climax after false climax. “Psyche . . . delic!” chanted the band....
...“I will not vote any more, never again,” she adds. “I will not vote a third time.”...
...“We’re looking and we’re laughing,” chants Jovi Nkosi through the coda, as if exuberance still has to go hand in hand with vigilance. ★★★★★...
...I give them my vote and dem abuse it . . . ” From the same EP, “African Dreams” condemns foreign exploitation of Africa, and “Struggle Sounds” rejects accusations of nihilism....
...Patrick Lumumba, a former head of Kenya’s anti-corruption commission and current head of The Kenya School of Laws, said he thought the “constant talk of rigging within the opposition circles is exaggerated...
...“He went into an election with only one result in mind: ‘If I lose, it has been rigged.’”...
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