In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...
Xai, residents have invaded and divided up a pasture area on Nguluzane farm. The owners says that the usurpation of the area ...
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The Making of a Cold War Spy
The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...
The man they backed instead, Joseph Mobutu, overthrew Lumumba’s young, fragile government ... dragging the United States [in] by labelling Patrice Lumumba a communist, which he was not ...
Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat opens with footage of a Max Roach drum solo, cut with intertitles of his wife, the singer, ...
In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s ...
It’s a blockbuster month on streaming as “Wicked” and “Moana 2,” two of 2024’s biggest movies, make their arrivals on Peacock ...
The intense, high-living Wisner took happily to wartime spy work, enjoying an extramarital affair with a young Romanian princess ... of Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who was seen as ...
With his furious docu-essay I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck caused a stir in 2016. The film about African-American writer James Baldwin and the Civil Rights Movement not only put the Haitian-born Peck ...
Furthermore, Belgium made headlines by returning the remains of Patrice Lumumba, a prominent figure ... in search of better opportunities. Many young people are questioning the effectiveness ...