Students of the World
Students of the World On June 30, 1960--the day of the Congo's independence--Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial…
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Students of the World
On June 30, 1960--the day of the Congo's independence--Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the cold war jeopardized African movements for liberation.
Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence