Lumumba

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Patrice Lumumba briefly but regularly, from 2019 to 2026, and always in connection with his death. He sees him as a "Marxisant" leader, murdered for his ideas1, who led the Congo to independence2. From one session to the next, he returns to the same points: Lumumba is tortured and then shot in the back, on Belgian instructions or under Belgian direction3. In 2024 he calls him a martyr4. In 2026, reacting to Emmanuel Macron's remarks at the Africa Forward summit, he presents him as a great leader. He then places his death at the time of the Katanga secession5 and adds that Mobutu was pulled out of the ranks to eliminate him6. For him, Lumumba is not an author he reads or comments on. He serves as an example in discussions of money and freedom, of identity, of worldliness, and of relations between France, Belgium and Africa.

1. 1Money, work, freedom3 Aug 2019 · 21:58
2. 2#10.2 Dialectics of identity and difference6 Oct 2021 · 1:59:09
3. 3Worldliness in Clouscard: the world as “cunning of reason”22 Jul 2023 · 2:23:20
4. 4Too late?14 Aug 2024 · 42:39
5. 5Mali: a response to Emmanuel Macron's remarks at the Africa Forward summit16 May 2026 · 14:13
6. 6Mali: a response to Emmanuel Macron's remarks at the Africa Forward summit16 May 2026 · 33:04

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.