La Tombe De Lumumba. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

The elegy is written to honour the memory of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1967) , who was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1961-1962. Only a year, not long enough. Lumumba wanted complete independence for his country from being a colony of Belgium.
Katangan secessionists disagreed with Lumumba and They assassinated him. The coup d'etat involved Belgium, the US, and, less complicitly, the UN. The United Nations could have saved Lumumba's government had they acted more quickly with UN troops. Both Belgium and the CIA in the US later admitted their part in plotting in the coup.
Lumumba was a hero for Langston Hughes, a negro like himself, and also left-wing in that he looked to the USSR for support and did not trust the Western powers ('the whores all powdered with uranium dust') . The thieves were the Katangan rebels and the colonial powers. Lumumba remains a symbol of anti-colonialism everywhere in the world.