The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

Bud Werner Library will present a free screening of the Oscar-nominated film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” at 6:30 p.m. on ...

Grimonprez is his own eclectic mix. A cultural theorist preoccupied with mass media and fear; a fast-talking professorial ...

Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo have become embroiled ... Wondo is among 37 alleged coup plotters, including three Americans, who were convicted on charges including criminal ...

Amid the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, TikTok posts are circulating videos claiming to show US soldiers arriving in the country to “rescue” an American citizen -- and son of a ...

Amid the ongoing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, TikTok posts are ... in the country to “rescue” an American citizen -- and son of a local coup leader -- who was sentenced to ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo, one of Africa’s largest countries, has convicted three Americans and dozens of others of taking part in a coup attempt and imposed “the harshest ...

With Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, director Johan Grimonprez ... One of them is Conor Cruise O'Brien, a UN envoy to Congo in 1960. He details how American and British mining companies pushed ...

A military court in Congo, one of Africa’s largest countries, has convicted three Americans and dozens of others of taking part in a coup attempt and imposed “the harshest penalty, that of ...