Lumumba Lost

About the Book

Lumumba Lost is the story of Patrice Lumumba’s failed attempt to bring the former Belgian Congo into the global market in the immediate post-Independence period, circa 1960. Lumumba, the Congo’s first Prime Minister, was assassinated as a result of his attempt to freely market the Congo’s rich mineral wealth. Told in first person by a variety of people involved in Lumumba’s power struggle and ultimate demise, Lumumba Lost sheds light on the constraints placed upon African independence leaders by the western corporate world with which they had hoped to trade. While framed as fiction, Lumumba Lost gains its verisimilitude from the author’s extensive research into the historical record.

About the Author

Sallie Pisani received her Ph.D. in history at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. She is retired from the academic community where she thought diplomatic history. Her first book The CIA and the Marshall Plan was published by the University Press of Kansas. She resides in Hollywood, Florida with her husband Francis, and is currently at work on a history of interracial marriages among commercial elites of the lower Mississippi River region in the post-Civil War period.