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?

Publicity

With Juliana Lumumba, Petit Pierre of OK Jazz, historian Isidore Ndaywel, to the sound of our sound and musical archives.

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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