Belgium’s Lumumba case raises a question Africa still avoids

While a former colonial power revisits its role in Lumumba’s killing, much of postcolonial Africa still fails to confront the political vision for which he was eliminated.

Al Jazeera columnist.

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On January 20, a court in Brussels, Belgium, convened a procedural hearing in the long-running case concerning the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The hearing did not revisit the full history of the killing, but was limited to determining whether the case should proceed under Belgian law.