It is difficult to tell whether Roland Lumumba’s low tone of voice is an expression of his fatigue, relief or simply a certain weariness. Speaking in early June, the only thing that Patrice Émery Lumumba’s son seems struggling to hide is his impatience to bring his family’s interminable ordeal to an end. “It’s been difficult to get to this point,” he says, referring to the mourning his family has been deprived of – for lack of a body to bury.
DRC: After Lumumba, will Mobutu and Tshombe ever rest in peace?

While Patrice Lumumba's tooth was finally returned to his family before being repatriated to Kinshasa, the remains of other Congolese political figures are still interred abroad. The inside story of a family headache with national significance.