The documentary is similar to Kongo. Obviously the same team produced both versions but this one with shorter editing (2 hours instead of 2 hours and 30 minutes) and some archive images are different. Also this one comes with English subtitles (click on CC).
French with English subs
Ce documentaire, mélangeant animations et images d’archives, couvre l’histoire du Congo depuis sa découverte par Duarte Lopes jusqu’àa l’avènement de Joseph Kabila… ***CERTAINES IMAGES PEUVENT CHOQUER***
Français
Lumumba, Master of the World. By Burozi. ca.
1970s. Oil on cotton, 66 x 50,8 cm. Jewsiewicki
Collection.
Le gouvernement de la RDC a annoncé le lundi 13 mai la création d’une ville qui portera le nom de Lumumba, premier Premier ministre du pays. Lumumbaville sera située à l’actuel emplacement de la cité de Wembo-Nyama jusqu’au groupement Ewango dans le territoire de Katako-Kombe au Kasaï-Oriental.
« La motivation c’est honorer la mémoire de Patrice Emery Lumumba qui a été assassiné à cause de la défense des intérêts nationaux dont il a fait son cheval de bataille », explique Lambert Mende, porte-parole du gouvernement congolais.
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Who killed Congo’s first elected Prime Minister and why was he killed? How involved was British Intelligence?
None of what hit the headlines today is news.
Here’s a passage from the novel Banana Pier published 2012
Robert Coulthard is in Berlin. He’s about 22 years old and he and Dinger have arrived at the Wannsee. Dinger is in great form, reminiscing about his time as a fresh young officer in 1960 when a serious young African is elected to lead the Republic of Congo’s Nationalist Party in government. Thirty-four, bloody young for a Prime Minister, don’t you think, son? Too bloody smart by half, isBell’s verdict. The ‘too bloody smart one’ was called Patrice Lumumba. Coulthard remembered because he thought it sounded like a girls’ name. Bell is whispering, All a mistake. Usual faction disputes, too bloody young! Course the Yanks were up in arms, bloody commies and…
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