Kinshasa: Lumumba (1/2)
Audio 48:30
Patrice Lumumba, with his family, August 10, 1960 © AP / Babout
By: Valérie Nivelon
52 min
Report in Kinshasa in search of the memory of Patrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of independent Congo, assassinated on January 17, 1961, in the middle of the cold war.
60 years later, justice has still not passed, but can we assassinate ideas?
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With Juliana Lumumba, Petit Pierre of OK Jazz, historian Isidore Ndaywel, to the sound of our sound and musical archives.
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To read:
Lumumba, my father,
by Valérie Nivelon.
Bibliography:
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General history of the Congo.
From ancient heritage to the Democratic Republic
, by Isidore Ndaywel
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Congo.
A story
, by David Van Reybrouck
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Lumumba in the arts
, by Matthias De Groof.
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Playlist:
AFRICAN JAZZ PIONEERS: Nontosangoma
KIEZOS: Rumba 70
FRANCO TP OK Jazz: Instrumental
ADOU ELENGA: Ata Ndélé
GRAND KALLE: Miwela Miwela
AFRICAN JAZZ: MNC Uhuru
AFRICAN JAZZ: Vive Patrice Lumumba
GRAND KALLE: Tchatcha independence
JC PETIT: Lumumba
AFRICAN JAZZ: Suki Pembe Na African Jazz
GRAND KALLE: African Jazz Makili Mobimbo.
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