You get isekai'd into Lumumba's body on June 30, 1960 (The day Congo gets independence)What do you do to both save the Congo, and also keep yourself from being murdered.
>>18290638Purges. Secure resources, trade with China NOT Soviet Union, predicting Nixon 1972 12 years early, build reserve bank. Survive CIA shenanigans by hopefully feeding people better than covert agents can. The problem is congo is so big and centralization was a tall task especially dislodging the control of the resources in eastern congo from the locals (who would go on to over throw him in this timeline). But idealist musical blacks will never be able to outsmart or even foresee white (and black) conniving.
>>18290646>musical blacks?
>>18290646>The problem is congo is so big and centralization was a tall taskIs there maybe an argument that balkanization is the best route? Because of Belgian "Congolese bet" fuckery, the country is fucking impossible to run.
Ignore paranoid bullshit like this >>18290646 and place more trust in other African leaders and President Kasa-Vubu.When the Republic of the Congo gains independence, don't party for days, rather immediately get to business and issue commands to the garrisons to assemble in the parade grounds and raise our flag, affirm the authority of the new officer corps as long as they are law abiding and keep their men law abiding. In the following months inspect various military installations with Kasa-Vubu and the nation's infrastructure and how it is being managed and the civil service, communications, the press and so on. Private talk with Kasa-Vubu about our agreed roles in the government and his ambitions and those of our supporters, how long he wishes to be President, future elections and so on and iron out any potential rivalry.When the Katanga crisis begins, don't begin an offensive, rather stay on the defensive and "ask" other African leaders isolate the rogue state, making it clear if they do not make at least some effort to prevent arms smuggling into the Katanga or any other such activity that might strengthen them they will be branded as being colonial stooges.I would then go to the UN and work to avoid being viewed as a communist, not touching the Soviet Union or China with a 50 foot pole, though not antagonizing them either. Rather than ask for aid directly I'd ask sympathetic countries to support action against the Katanga and restore the territory to its lawful sovereign state. I would use the media to try and explain the situation to the general public in the anglosphere and western Europe and the nature of the mining operation there, that the RoC only wishes to impose safety regulations and the like to protect workers, little different from laws in their own country.In the unlikely even there is no UN intervention, I would continue training the army so they don't try to genocide the Luba tribe or rape once they are put into the conflict.
>>18290738That trip Lumumba made to America was a big mistake. It made America not take him seriously, and it was valuable time he should have spent at home instead.
Don't ask your FBI handler to get you blonde pussy. The racists in the state department are going to read about that and hate your guts for it.
>>18290638Make loud noises about being a staunch anti-communist
>>18290881It wouldn't matter. Corporate mining interests would have found something else to get pushed about and try to get their own guy in (which they did with Moise Tshombe). Lumumba being anti-Soviet or Chinese wouldn't be enough to convince world powers or wanna be ex-powers from doing power plays.
I immediately beg any white state to colonize and run my country in exchange for blonde pussy
>>18290996Lumumba got turfed out because he was a retard that thought threatening the US with a Soviet intervention - at a time when Cold War tensions were running particularly high - was the way to go. If le ebil mining unions were behind it actually had any influence (outside katanga) the katangan secession would've been completed smoothly
>>18290638If I woke up one day and I was anyone or anywhere in Africa, I would immediately try to get off that God-forsaken continent.
Pretend to go along but do socialist shit quitely, blame Mobutu for it if the western powers look too closely. Play it cool until the Cuban missle crisis and then pull a Gaddafi but don't fuck it up.
>>18290638>What do you do to keep yourself from being murdered>Just ride on op's mama into sunset!
>>18290638>What do you do to both save the Congo, and also keep yourself from being murderedStart a Pol Pot style genocide while simultaneously developing my own cult of personality (which is backed by actual African black magic), behead albinos and put them on stakes leading into Kinshasa. Use my massive army to invade smaller states around me. Keep all my immediate advisors loyal by having their families kidnapped and kept in a palace/prison. Court the USSR heavily and try to get nukes at least stationed in my country as a base (eventually hoping to steal them).
>>18290638Federalize and slowly work to get rid of Belgian influence in Katanga
