Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. cj. Hardcover first edition - In June 1960, the former Belgian Congo won its independence; on January 17. 1961, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered. This is a biography of this man who was largely self-educated and how he became a powerful force in the Congo's struggle for self-government - and who became a symbol of liberty throughout Africa after his murder. Inrtroduction by Herbert F. Weiss. Photographs, map, bibliography, index. xi, 202 pp. Map endpapers.