As jazz celebrities rallied to the cause of African decolonization, secret Western interests saw an opportunity for ...
Patrice Lumumba (centre) is tied up by Joseph Mobutu's soldiers. He would be executed days later. Photo: Getty Patrice ...
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 ...
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 ...