Kinshasa: Lumumba (2/2)
Audio 48:30
Magloire Mpaka, photographer and collector of the memory of Kinshasa.
© RFI / Valérie Nivelon
By: Valérie Nivelon
51 min
The March of the World in report in Kinshasa in search of the memory of Patrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of independent Congo, assassinated on January 17, 1961. While his family hopes for the return of his final relic, in order to be able to bury him in all dignity.
Lumumba's wandering soul haunts the Congo and his missing image is recreated by Congolese artists, interpreters of his speeches and his nationalist dream.
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With Méga Mingiedi, visual artist; Magloire Mpaka, collector photographer; Orakle Ngoy, slammer performer; Sinzo Aanza, writer and director; David Shongo, pianist, composer and visual artist, Micro Mega, rapper and videographer.
Thanks to all the artists we met without whom this program would not exist, and particularly to Sébastien Godret, Androa Mindre Kolo, Dominique Malaquais and the entire Kinshasa Chroniques exhibition team.
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To discover here
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To read:
Lumumba, my father,
by Valérie Nivelon.
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To listen: The first episode of Kinshasa Lumumba.
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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