The musical cast of documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is stellar: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Nina Simone just some of the jazz titans whose work fills the film. And the coup? Well, that is ...
The assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, serves as a profound example of how attempts to erase a leader can be met with unexpected resilience ...
which in February 1961 burst into the United Nations building in New York to protest the Belgium-assisted assassination the month before of Patrice Lumumba, Congo's democratically elected prime ...
The film never lets up. Pieced together from carefully colour-graded archive footage and the contemporaneous testimonies of Khrushchev, Andrée Blouin, In Koli Jean Bofane and Conor Cruise O’Brien ...