After the heroic death of Patrice Éméry Lumumba, the world revered him as a martyr of pan-Africanism. Today, the legacy of Lumumba as a pan-Africanist and nationalist who wanted his Congolese people and the rest of Africa free from colonial imperialism and African countries united into one African nation endures. Everything he said, did and wrote pointed to a great pan-Africanist mind. Lumumba’s short and brief precious political life left the Congo in an unending crisis that has persisted until today.