Mulele, Pierre, 1929-1968

found: Martens, L. Pierre Mulele, ou, La ... c1985:t.p. (Pierre Mulele) cover p. 4 (Minister of nat. educ. during first Congolese governm.)

found: Mulele et la révolution populaire au Kwilu (République démocratique du Congo), 2006:p. 345-347 (b. 1929; d. 1968)

found: 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)

found: 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)