Great thread about how the west's fear of independent post-colonial nations has led us to where we are now.
If you haven't seen Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, I'd encourage you to do so without delay.
https://unrollnow.com/status/1908808080663421152
Sources used in the thread:
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/congo-decolonization
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara/The-Congo-Bolivia-and-death
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/c9f36e2ba4e28ed26961fa0715397001/Review-The-Lumumba-Plot-Studies-68-1-March-2024.pdf
https://afriquexxi.info/DRC-USA-Lumumba-s-murder-was-an-international-tragedy
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174
#Politics #Colonialism #Documentary #Movies
If you haven't seen Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, I'd encourage you to do so without delay.
https://unrollnow.com/status/1908808080663421152
Sources used in the thread:
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/congo-decolonization
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara/The-Congo-Bolivia-and-death
https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/c9f36e2ba4e28ed26961fa0715397001/Review-The-Lumumba-Plot-Studies-68-1-March-2024.pdf
https://afriquexxi.info/DRC-USA-Lumumba-s-murder-was-an-international-tragedy
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452174
#Politics #Colonialism #Documentary #Movies
DRC-USA. “Lumumba’s murder was an international tragedy” - Interview
Stuart Reid, editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine, is the author of a meticulous investigation into the assassination in 1961 of the Prime Minister of the independent Congo, Patrice Emery Lumumba. (…)Afrique XXI
