Discovering his story
“I have always been curious about Lumumba's story, now, you've brought it to me for free.”
A reader responding to a published profile of PLO · July 2025
AUTHOR · SCHOLAR · PUBLIC VOICE
PLO
Lumumba.
In conversation.
In print. In the life of a continent.
THE VOICES OF SSALI / Kenya / LAW, PUBLIC LIFE & AFRICAN THOUGHT
PLO Lumumba
Politics & ideas
Africa Arise · Volume I
A collection of reflections on Africa’s identity, leadership, unity, and its place in a changing world.
Politics & ideas
Africa Arise · Volume II
PLO Lumumba continues the Africa Arise series with a call to examine the continent’s challenges and possibilities.
Politics & ideas
Africa Arise · Volume III
Reflections on leadership and nationhood, continuing PLO Lumumba’s engagement with the responsibilities of African public life.
Fiction
Stolen Moments
A political novel about principle, exile, and the struggle for justice.
Law & diplomacy
Kenya’s Exclusive Economic Zone
A maritime perspective on Kenya’s future.
Politics & ideas
Quotable Quotes & Reflections
Words to return to.
PLO LUMUMBA / WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS
A voice travels.
Where did it
find you?
From the stage to your own story.
The conversation begins with the book.Discover Africa Arise · Volume I
THE AUTHOR’S COLLECTION
At the desk.
Before the address.
Books and writing pieces for the notes behind a public voice. Choose a signed pair, a reading gift or the full Legacy set.
Before the next question.
A thought on the page. A sleeve for the notes. Writing pieces for the conversations that stay with you.
Explore the pieces belowINSIDE THE COLLECTION / A FEW PAGES TO SPEND TIME WITH
The words stay.
You add the next line.
A quotation on the opening page. Space for the ideas it starts. A calendar that gives history a place in the ordinary day.
FROM THE AUTHOR’S PUBLIC WORDS
“We must produce what we consume.”PLO LumumbaShared by the PLO Lumumba Foundation
YOUR NOTES
THE INDEPENDENCE & IDEAS CALENDAR
Dates worth
remembering.
Selected annual remembrance pages. A moment to read, reflect and make a note of your own.
Ghana
Independence · 1957
A date to return to the responsibilities that follow self-government.
Historical reference“We must produce what we consume.”PLO Lumumba
One thought to carry forward:
Two books to keep the conversation going. Signing is arranged with Ssali.
THE SIGNED READING PAIR
Two books. A personal signature.
Choose two PLO titles for a signed reading pair. A thoughtful gift for someone whose ideas you value.
Signed book pair
- Included
- Two PLO books of your choice
- Included
- Signatures, subject to the signing schedule
- Optional addition
- Personal dedication request
The words, worn quietly. Black cotton for the working day.
THE WORDS WE WEAR
Morally Armed Generation.
The words, worn simply. A black cotton polo with a discreet portrait and slogan at the chest.
Single garment
- Included
- One slogan T-shirt or polo
- Optional addition
- A PLO book
A thought worth stopping to write down. The everyday pen comes with the reading-notes set.
QUOTABLE QUOTES / THE READER’S GIFT
The reader’s notes collection.
Read a passage. Let it sit with you. Ink-navy linen, an espresso leather case and a copper edge keep the reading notes simple and the thought your own. The everyday pen is our gift.
Book & notes set
- Included
- Quotable Quotes & Reflections
- Included
- PLO notes journal and structured leather pen case
- Complimentary
- Everyday ballpoint pen
A sleeve for the notes you carry. Before the next question, a little room to think.
PLO LUMUMBA / THE LEGACY COLLECTION
The Legacy Writing Collection.
The signature that opens a door. The pages you carry into the room. Espresso leather, a quiet copper detail and a clean folded sleeve: pieces with presence, made to be used with Africa Arise.
Book & legacy writing set
- Included
- Africa Arise · Volume I and espresso leather journal
- Included
- Structured leather case, signing pen and everyday pen
- Included
- A4 leather sleeve with folded closure
- Optional addition
- Independence & Ideas calendar
IN HIS OWN WORDS
The conversation
continues.
Listen to PLO Lumumba on Africa’s possibilities, and in conversation beyond the lectern.
BEYOND THE BOOKS
Follow his work.
PEOPLE AROUND THE WORK
Authors. Publishers.
Conversations.
MINNEAPOLIS · JULY 2021
Across the Atlantic.
A shared humanity.
During his 2021 United States tour, PLO Lumumba visited George Floyd Square in Minneapolis—a moment of remembrance and solidarity within a wider conversation between Africa and its diaspora.
The tour brought him into dialogue with diaspora communities on Africa’s future, including education, healthcare, infrastructure, and technology. Here, that public conversation gave way to a quieter act: being present.
Read the KDRTV account
Photographs supplied by Ssali Publishing House · Visit documented by KDRTV, 20 July 2021.