Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements, and biographies on some of Africa’s most important political thinkers and activities. Leo is editor of the Review of African Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. His critically acclaimed novel Eddie the Kid won the 2014 Creative Work Prize. Today we talk about his book Lumumba: Africa’s Lost Leader.