Joseph Lutula
Joseph Lutula | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of the Congo | |
| In office 24 June 1960 – 12 September 1960 | |
| President | Joseph Kasa-Vubu |
| Prime Minister | Patrice Lumumba |
| In office 2 August 1961 – 17 April 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | Cyrille Adoula |
| Minister of Minister of Middle Classes and Community Development of the Republic of the Congo | |
| In office 17 April 1963 – September 1963 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 October 1927 Usumba-Wembo-Nyama, Mouvement National Congolais |
Joseph Bonaventure Lutula La Puku Pene Omasumbu (6 October 1927 – 17 March 2008) was a Congolese politician who served as Minister of Agriculture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) in 1960. He reassumed the post in 1961 and held it until April 1963, when he was appointed Minister of Middle Classes and Community Development. He resigned from the government that September. He died in 2008.
Biography
Joseph Lutula was born on 6 October 1927Kasai Province, and Lutula was given control of its permanent secretariat.[8]
Lutula ran on an MNC-Lumumba ticket in the May elections in the
Bakwanga over the course of the month, Lutula fled Léopoldville and joined Antoine Gizenga's government in Stanleyville as Minister of Agriculture.[1][14] After a national political reconciliation in August, Lutula resumed his position in the central government under Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula.[14] On 17 April 1963 Adoula reshuffled his cabinet and made him Minister of Middle Classes and Community Development.[15] He resigned in September.[16]
In the 1970s Lutula moved to Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), but in the late 1980s he returned to Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville).[3] He died at 20:00 on 17 March 2008 at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa following cardiac issues.[17]
Citations
- ^ a b c CRISP no. 120 1961, paragraph 106.
- ^ Turner 1973, p. 268.
- ^ a b Omasombo & Verhaegen 2005, p. 390.
- ^ Bonyeka 1992, p. 394.
- ^ Turner 1973, p. 238.
- ^ Turner 1973, p. 244.
- ^ Turner 1973, p. 262.
- ^ Turner 1973, p. 267.
- ^ Turner 1973, p. 272.
- ^ Kanza 1994, p. 109.
- ^ Turner 1973, p. 276.
- ^ Kanza 1994, p. 103.
- ^ "Widow of Lumumba Marches In Mourning to Ask U.N. Help". The New York Times. United Press International. 15 February 1961. p. 16.
- ^ a b CRISP no. 120 1961, Composition du Gouvernement Adoula.
- ^ "Congo Cabinet Reshuffle Announced by Adoula". Africa Special Report. Institute of African American Relations. 23 June 1963.
- ProQuest 116460373.
- ^ Kasambe, Raph W. (20 March 2008). "Joseph Bonaventure LUTULA, ami d'enfance, condisciple et ministre de Patrice LUMUMBA, s'est éteint le 17 mars 2008 à Kinshasa". La Prospérité (in French). Kinshasa. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
References
- Bonyeka, Bomandeke (1992). Le Parlement congolais sous le régime de la Loi fondamentale (in French). Kinshasa: Presses universitaire du Zaire. OCLC 716913628.
- ISBN 978-0-87073-901-9.
- "Onze mois de crise politique au Congo". Courrier Hebdomadaire du CRISP (in French) (120). Brussels: Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques: 1–24. 1961. .
- Turner, Thomas Edwin (1973). A Century of Conflict in Sankuru (Congo-Zaire). Madison: University of Wisconsin. OCLC 38789852.
- Omasombo, Jean Tshonda; Verhaegen, Benoît (2005). Patrice Lumumba, acteur politique : de la prison aux portes du pouvoir, juillet 1956-février 1960 (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 9782747563925.
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