Discours du 30 Juin évalué par quelques élevés du complexe Marcelin Mobateli

The Democratic Republic of Congo gained its independence under the name of Republic of Congo on June 30, 1960. On that day, in Leopoldville (Kinshasa), three speeches were delivered respectively by the King of the Belgians, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister. More than 60 years later, these three speeches were submitted to the evaluation of 246 thirdyear students of the humanities of a private school in Kinshasa. Discovering the proportion of students able to make a judgment on the speeches of Baudouin and Lumumba, then discovering the proportion of students able to justify the marginalization of the speech of Kasa-Vubu were the objectives of the work. After counting and analyzing the responses collected, the results of the study are as follows: most of the students interviewed (66.3%) were unable to make a judgment on the speeches of Baudouin and Lumumba; most of the students interviewed (67.1%) were unable to justify the marginalization of Kasa-Vubu’s speech. Among the recommendations made, there are in particular: teaching Lumumba’s speech in fragments in primary school and in its entirety in secondary school; improving the delivery of French lessons.