Lumumba Anti-Colonial Politics Analysis

One of the major experiences that influenced Lumumba’s turn to anti-colonial politics was noticed while working in the civil service, in that his major opposition to the system was the “color bar” and how it affected the African elite. The other was when he was working for l’Afrique et le Monde, he began writing about the nature of colonialism that he did not like.
Being that Lumumba worked hard in order to work his way up the ranks and into the African elite, through: volunteering, school, learning the language of the French, and even obtaining his matriculation, he could never truly enjoy all the rights given to the whites. Lumumba was determined to fight this issue, and joined various associations (where he most often became vice president/president)