DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CONGO (L) FEBRUARY 13, 1972
Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL (the Organisation of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America). Based in Cuba, they made magazines and posters that were sent around the world. Their aim was to promote radical political ideas. Many of their posters celebrate socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South.
Patrice Lumumba was the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the country’s independence from Belgian colonial rule. This poster promotes a day of solidarity with the country on the date that Lumumba’s assassination was announced. It combines Lumumba’s profile with an outline of the African continent to recognise his role as a leader in the Pan-African movement.
