The assassination of the Congo’s first prime minister has been shrouded in mystery – but the impending trial of a Belgian diplomat may provide answers ...

Patrice Lumumba's case took center stage at an April 15 event in Geneva on colonial impunity and justice for African independence leaders.

History is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a TikTok video, a deft ...

Exclusive: Johan Grimonprez directs the Sundance award-winning documentary about the plan to assassinate Congo’s premier prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Who knew that jazz legends like Louis ...

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

The CIA’s role in assassination is one of those topics handled gingerly by the press or Congress from time to time and then hastily put aside, with the habitual claim that the CIA may have dreamed of ...

The killing of Patrice Lumumba, DR Congo's first democratically-elected prime minister, shaped decades of crisis, failed ...

AFA copy, 39088019758077 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Prologue : The loose tooth -- Part I : Subject -- The boy from Onalua -- Promising docility -- The most impossible job on earth -- To Brussels ...