Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of newly independent Congo, was the second of five leaders of independence movements in African countries to be assassinated in the 1960s by their former colonial masters, or their agents.
One of the common claims made by leaders of independence movements was that colonialism had been responsible for perpetuating low living standards in the colonies.
Aung San was supposed to assume Burma's leadership once the British granted the country its independence in 1948; as the leader of the independence movement, he was able to bring together the various minority groups which inhabit Burma.
When the 1988 Matignon agreements were signed between the representatives of France and New Caledonia to decide on holding the referendum for independence, Jean-Marie Tjibaou, the Kanak leader of the independence movement, had mooted a proposal to set up an Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture (ADCK).
The leader of the independence campaign, Pascal Paoli, is a local deity.
"We are here for the long haul," said Heriberto Marín, a leader of the independence camp.
The flamboyant leader of the independence movement, Simón Bolívar, was one such ruler (of Gran Colombia, his ephemeral political creation).
The leader of the independence movement, Pedro Albizu Campos, was a Harvard Law graduate, a polymath, and a gifted public speaker.
The leader of its independence movement, Barthélemy Boganda, died in a mysterious plane crash just before the country was liberated, and a power struggle ensued, leaving David Dacko as president.
