The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is a phenomenal film—brilliantly crafted. Johan Grimonprez unearths truths about the overthrow of ...

The Trump administration is ousting four additional outlets from Pentagon workspaces, with CNN and The Washington Post set to ...

Now there is a much greater recognition of the harm Belgium caused in Belgian Congo and Rwanda. Under Belgian rule the ...

The conflicts in DR Congo are embarrassments to Africa. It is alleged that the conflicts are the bloodiest since the end of ...

The teams behind "Sugarcane," "Black Box Diaries," "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" and "Porcelain War" discuss the urgency of their work ...

Wright, 52, started off political. As a teenager in the 1980s, he went on anti-nuclear marches and deployed the term fascist ...

Introduction a) The new NPP Government finds itself navigating a delicate diplomatic tightrope between two Asian ...

Since independence, Kenya has had five ‘top horses’ who won the presidency—Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi, Mwai Kibaki, Uhuru ...

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But its plot is deadly serious. Patrice Lumumba, who helped lead Congo’s struggle from a Belgian colony into an independent republic and became its first Prime Minister, was wildly popular – not just ...