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Dipanda !

Dipanda !

Dipanda !

'Belgium must not see our independence as its gift to us. It is a right that the Congolese people had lost. Our goal is to unite and organize the Congolese masses in the effort to improve the colonial regime and ban human exploitation.'

Patrice Lumumba at the 28 December 1958 meeting on his return from the Accra Pan-African Conference.