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Patrice Emery Lumumba

A villa among others within a garden. The hostess opens the door herself and prepares you a coffee in the kitchen. Although a journalist in another life, she says she is uncomfortable with the interviews, but still welcomes her into her living room and answers questions with rare sincerity. A formidable narrator, she passes in the same sentence from literate French to Kinshasa Lingala. Her name is Juliana. She is the only daughter of Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the independent Congo, assassinated after a few months in office.