POLS 3000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Role Of Christianity In Civilization, Patrice Lumumba, Basil Davidson
2 Mar 2017
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Patrice lumumba, a rejection european rule with a demand for independence, in wilfred. Cartey and martin kilson eds. , the africa reader: independent africa (new york: random. Africa is unique and will rule in a way different than that which the europeans suggest. There is an african personality which must be expressed. The government of the congo is a nationalist government that doesn"t want any imported ideologies, but which demands nothing except the total, complete liberation of the congo (87) We have our own ideology, a strong, noble ideology which is the affirmation of the. We refuse assimilation because assimilation means depersonalizing the african and. We do not want a bourgeois government that lives at a distance. We are going to go down among the people, speak with the people every time. (88) Independence is not easy and will not come quickly, it will be a struggle. Independence which comes as a gift is not a good independence.
