Mulele, Pierre, 1929-1968

LC control no.	n 85340894
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Mulele, Pierre, 1929-1968 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Congo (Democratic Republic)
Birth date	19290711
Death date	19681003
Place of birth	Lukamba (Congo)
Place of death	Kinshasa (Congo)
Affiliation	Association du personnel indigène (Congo) Parti Socialiste Africaine (Congo) Mouvement national congolais
Profession or occupation	Revolutionaries Politicians Education ministers
Found in	Martens, L. Pierre Mulele, ou, La ... c1985: t.p. (Pierre Mulele) cover p. 4 (Minister of nat. educ. during first Congolese governm.) Mulele et la révolution populaire au Kwilu (République démocratique du Congo), 2006: p. 345-347 (b. 1929; d. 1968) Pierre Mulele et le maquis du Kwilu en RD Congo, c2010: p. 13 (Pierre Mulele, b. 1931 in Aten, Ngungu, district of Kwilu) p. 92 (killed Oct. 3, 1968) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mulele, Pierre; revolutionary, politician, education minister; born 11 July 1929 in Lukamba, Congo; reported for duty at the provincial base of Mbandaka (1951); transferred to the colonial capital of Kinshasa; had a reputation of a rebel; joined the Association du personnel indigène (APIC), a group of Congolese civil servants that demanded equal political and legal rights with Europeans; joined the mutual aid associations La Mode and Bana ya Joie; formed a Marxist party, the Parti Socialiste Africaine (PSA) (1958); became a close ally of Patrice Lumumba, the nationalist leader of the Mouvement National Congolais (MNC) and the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; served as Lumumba's minister of education; gained aid from Communist China; launched a rural guerrilla movement in his home province of Kwilu for the establishment of a Communist Congo (1963); escaped to Brazzaville where he sought refuge in the Cuban embassy and was persuaded to return to Kinshasa; died 03 October 1968 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)