{"id":84194,"date":"2026-01-29T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84194"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:12:50","slug":"youngest-son-of-dr-congos-independence-hero-passes-away-in-kinshasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/youngest-son-of-dr-congos-independence-hero-passes-away-in-kinshasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngest son of DR Congo&#8217;s independence hero passes away in Kinshasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VftrP.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=112&amp;y=241&amp;s=165&amp;d=165\" alt=\"Roland Lumumba, left, arriving for a ceremony at Egmont Palace in Brussels, 20 June 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The youngest son of Democratic Republic of Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba has died in the capital, Kinshasa, at the age of 67 following an illness.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2026\/01\/29\/youngest-son-of-dr-congos-independence-hero-passes-away-in-kinshasa\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The youngest son of Democratic Republic of Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba has died in the capital, Kinshasa, at the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Roland-Lumumba.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84196,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84194\/revisions\/84196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}