Louis Rwagasore: The Burundian Prime Minister Assassinated by Belgium for Threatening Colonial Interests

Louis Rwagasore was a Burundian prince, nationalist leader, and the country’s first elected Prime Minister who became the face of Burundi’s independence movement and pushed for an immediate end to Belgian colonial rule in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Just weeks after taking office in 1961, he was assassinated. Decades later, evidence emerged linking […] TalkAfricana