{"id":5567,"date":"2014-12-10T19:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2014-12-11T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T00:58:23","slug":"biorijin-wreath-lumumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/biorijin-wreath-lumumba\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumumba Said It, One Day Africa Will Write Its Own History"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\nIn the stillness of the night, he was taken to a forest bound, beaten, tortured, shot and then believe it or not his body chopped into pieces with a hacksaw and then dissolved in sulphuric acid. This was the beastly end of one, who died a slave that the men and women of the Congo will live as free men. His name was Patrice Lumumba. \nBut to what evil did Patrice merit such butchering? Man\u2019s beastly hate against man was only known during the days of slavery. It is no wonder to me that God after creation regretted he made man. He fore saw the days of slavery, in particular Lumumba\u2019s end.<\/p>\nLumumba was the Congo\u2019s first democratically elected Prime Minister but twelve weeks later, the colonial power, Belgian helped overthrow him and honored with a firing squad. \nBorn 2nd July 1925, Lumumba lived to challenge Belgian rule much to their hate whiles the ever devilish C.I.A planned his assassination but to no avail. For Lumumba, the African had his own identity and did not need the false indoctrination of the foreign powers. Hear him \u201cWe are not Communists, Catholics, Socialists. We are African nationalists.” Lumumba was against ethnic division, forging a unified Congo, though with much resistance. He shared his love for the continent with Nkrumah who he revered as a Prophet to the black race.<\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5625\" title=\"Patrice Lumumba's Quote\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lumumba2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\nIt is a shame that men like Lumumba, who died January 17th, 1961 are only honored in death. May be its because they lived beyond their generation. He left you reading this piece these words;<\/p>\n\u201cDead, living, free, or in prison on the orders of the colonialists, it is not I who counts. It is the Congo, it is our people for whom independence has been transformed into a cage where we are regarded from the outside\u2026 History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets… a history of glory and dignity. \u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe firewood of this world is for only those who can take heart, that is why not all can gather it,\u201d said Awoonor the African Poet. Lumumba took heart and gathered it. The end of the struggle may be gruesome, indeed fatal to some, but the end glory is no where compared to the sacrifice and the danger we face.<\/p>\nAs I lay my wreath, I do so knowing that whiles Congo lives, Lumumba lives, oceans of sulphuric acid cannot drown his living voice in the soul of Africa. \nTo you brother reading, and to you sister pondering these word, what will you say you did for your people when you meet Lumumba in the other world?<\/p>\nI lay my wreath.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HtzfCMHX1Yg\" width=\"632\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\u201c We must move forward, striking out tirelessly against imperialism. From all over the world we have to learn lessons which events afford. Lumumba\u2019s murder should be a lesson for all of us. \u201d<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 Che Guevara, 1964<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5624 alignnone\" title=\"Patrice Lumumba\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lumumba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"325\" \/> \nOne Day Africa Will Write Its Own History<\/p>\nInspired by Bob Marley\u2019s philosophy \u201cNone but ourselves can free our mind\u201d, Orijin is a unique \u201cCulture Brand\u201d connecting all African descendants together through it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/ORIJINSTORE.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fashion brand<\/a> and thought provoking magazine to influence our lifestyles world wide\u2026.Don\u2019t just WEAR Culture, SHARE Culture<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the stillness of the night, he was taken to a forest bound, beaten, tortured, shot and then believe it or not his body chopped <a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/biorijin-wreath-lumumba\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1136,"featured_media":6671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4800,4669,3925,4135],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roots","tag-africa","tag-biography","tag-history","tag-patrice-lumumba"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/Patrice-Lumumba-prison1.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/6846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}