Between 1961 and 1973,six African independence leaders were assassinated by their ex-colonial rulers, including Patrice Lumumba of Congo, and who was killed 50 years ago todayPatrice Lumumba,prime minister of newly independent Congo, was the moment of five leaders of independence movements in African countries to be assassinated in the 1960s by their former colonial masters, and their agents.
A sixth,Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, was ousted in a western-backed coup in 1966, and a seventh,Amilcar Cabral, leader of the west African liberation movement against Portugal of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, or (Partido Africano da Independência da Guin e Cabo Verde or PAIGC) in Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde,was assassinated in 1973.
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Source: theguardian.com