{"id":5037,"date":"2026-01-17T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/afcon-colonialism-and-lumumba\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:36:00","slug":"afcon-colonialism-and-lumumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/afcon-colonialism-and-lumumba\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON, Colonialism and Lumumba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><main id=\"main-content-area\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Main content area\"><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"vertical-video-thumbnail\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025_Game-Theory_EP20_Thumbnail_Horizontal_V01_00000-1768636247.png?resize=730%2C410&#038;quality=80\"   alt=\"AFCON LUMUMBA\"><\/p>\n<p>Game Theory: AFCON, Colonialism and Patrice Lumumba<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class>\n<header><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/game-theory\/\"><span>Game Theory<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/header>\n<p>At the Africa Cup of Nations, one Congolese fan stood motionless in the stands for 90 minutes. Not for a player, but for history. The pose honoured Patrice Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s first prime minister, a leader who stood for independence and paid for it with his life. Samantha Johnson looks at the history behind the gesture, and why it still matters.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Published On 17 Jan 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Theory: AFCON, Colonialism and Patrice Lumumba Game Theory At the Africa Cup of Nations, one Congolese fan stood motionless in the stands for 90 minutes. Not for a player, but for history. The pose honoured Patrice Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s first prime minister, a leader who stood for independence and paid &#8230; <a title=\"AFCON, Colonialism and Lumumba\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/afcon-colonialism-and-lumumba\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AFCON, Colonialism and Lumumba\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}