Words of Wisdom
Publish date: 02 March 2026
Issue Number: 1166
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: general
‘These divisions, which the colonial powers have always exploited the better to dominate us, have played an important role – and are still playing that role – in the suicide of Africa’.
Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in his 1959 African Unity and National Independence speech