‘Africa Will Write Its Own History.’ Who Was Patrice Lumumba?

Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ordered a retired Belgian diplomat stand trial for his 1961 ...
The Africa Report

‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’: Lumumba’s death and the Belgian link

Rendered in non-linear fashion, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat unfolds in three acts: an insight into the frosty relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the use ...
The New York Times

‘Lumumba: Death of a Prophet’: Revisiting a Mythic Figure

The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted. By J. Hoberman “If the prophet dies, so does ...