The man who handed Africa's greatest son to his killers was standing right beside him. Patrice Lumumba did not fall to colonizers alone. He fell because someone in the room opened the door. Mobutu Sese Seko — once Lumumba's trusted aide — handed him to Belgian-backed forces in January 1961. Within days, Lumumba was dead. This is the pattern colonialism mastered: it never needed to hold the gun. It just needed one man close enough to the leader to do it quietly. The most dangerous enemy is the one sharing your platform, your movement, your cause. Who are the Mobutus standing beside today's leaders — and what are they being offered? References: - Ludo De Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba (Verso Books, 2001) - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Patrice Lumumba (Ohio University Press, 2014)   submitted by   /u/nomaddd79 [link]   [comments]