Great thread on impact of Patrice Lumumba and Congo Crisis in Egypt.

Wanted to share a few things that I covered in my diss though I imagine @ericburton227 and @Reem_AbouElFadl would have lots to share as well abt role of Cairo in anti-colonial struggles https://twitter.com/gerthuskens/status/1252651726034919424">https://twitter.com/gerthuske...
Egypt along with India and Ghana were part of the UN peacekeeping mission( definitely checkout @AM_OMalley& #39;s recent book on this!) and as far as I know this was the first time Nasser authorized troop deployments outside the Arab world (tho how much that distinction matters https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face">)
There was also gov& #39;t promoted protests within Cairo that August with lots of news coverage in the Egyptian press over the summer and fall of 1960. I think it& #39;s pretty well known that Lumumba& #39;s children escaped to Cairo in November, followed by Pauline later on (though maybe not)
And in December, Salumu & the pro-Lumumba faction came to Cairo to meet w/ the Soviet ambassador in Egypt (a pretty established strategy for African nationalists), but also set up a new delegation in Cairo to be able to get their message out to international audiences
The Pathe clip in the thread is really phenomenal and I& #39;ll just add a photo of the protests, as well as Fathia Nkrumah with Lumumba& #39;s children in Cairo a few weeks earlier in late January.
In terms of relations with Belgian, Egypt actually re-established relations pretty quickly in 1961 even though they did nationalize Belgian property in December 1960 and then again after February (at least as far as I remember)
While Lumumba& #39;s assassination is definitely the high point, the specter of Congo continued to pop up in Egyptian political discourses (speeches, pamphlets, etc..) as a sort of lesson abt resurgent neocolonialism & simultaneously danger of over reach - esp. after collapse of UAR!
Eventually hoping to publish an article I& #39;ve been sitting on for a few years about this, and how it reemerges in 1964 with the second crisis, but would love to hear if others have thoughts abt symbolism of Congo & how much we should interpret from monuments...
I& #39;m still working through how in this moment conservative post-colonial modernizers & radical revolutionaries became allies & I wonder if this physical act of renaming spaces is actually that revolutionary or should be interpreted as co-opting this movement (or maybe bothhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face" aria-label="Emoji: Thinking face">)
Anyways great thread @gerthuskens https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏🏾" title="Clapping hands sign (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Clapping hands sign (medium dark skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏🏾" title="Clapping hands sign (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Clapping hands sign (medium dark skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏🏾" title="Clapping hands sign (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Clapping hands sign (medium dark skin tone)">
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