Bud Werner Library will present a free screening of the Oscar-nominated film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” at 6:30 p.m. on ...

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

This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary, 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat', which juxtaposes jazz with political murder. Directed by Johan Grimonprez, it cut deep into the blood-and-rubber ...

They all belonged to a group of mercenaries run by Horatiu Potra. Potra, a 55-year-old Romanian citizen, came to prominence ...

The National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO), which has consistently opposed the death penalty, maintains its stance. Speaking to La Croix International, Monsignor Donatien Nshole ...

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

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961.

Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial ...

THE HOUSE ;In the shadows of power, where whispered deals and hidden ambitions shape nations, a scandal erupted — one that would shake Uganda to its core. ;It was a time of high-stakes politics, ...

Kigali denies UN evidence that it smuggles vast amounts of gold and other metals out of eastern DR Congo and sells them as its own. But access to DR Congo's mineral wealth has been a driver of ...