Lumumba (2000)

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Cast: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Theophile Moussa Sowie, Maka Kotto, Mariam Kaba

Running Time: 115 min.

Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller

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Synopsis: The story of political leader Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister who helped lead his country to independence from Belgium in the late 1950s. Lumumba's vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies: the Belgian authorities, who wanted a much more paternal role in their former colony's affairs, and the CIA, who supported Lumumba's former friend Joseph Mobutu. This was in order to protect U.S. business interests in Congo's vast resources and their upper hand in the Cold War power balance. During the tenuous first six months of Congo's independence when civil war threatened to erupt, Lumumba tried to quell hostilities but was eventually betrayed by Mobutu whom he had appointed as head of the army. In 1961 with several conspiracies occurring at once, Lumumba met a brutal death--a mere nine months after becoming the country's first Prime Minister.

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Lumumba (2000)

CongoKasongo: Just watched #Tupac's lost prison tape interview, now listening to a #Lumumba speech. Dang humanity, why do we kill the good ones??!
IfyOtuya: Lumumba saw eye to eye with another amazing influential African leader, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. Two beautiful men. ♥ ♥
teakay09: I gave it to him and he saw that my wallpaper/screensaver was of Patrice Lumumba.
StanVito: I read that the combined effort of US and Belgium saw to the assasination of Patrice Lumumba to stifle his quest for true independence
Afrotonomy: I remember the first time I saw this picture of Patrice Lumumba (my background) my heart stopped. I wasn't sure where to cry of smash my PC.