The teams behind "Sugarcane," "Black Box Diaries," "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" and "Porcelain War" discuss the urgency of their work ...

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 ...

For countries like India, the stakes are enormous. To participate in the post-hydrocarbon global economy, the country needs ...

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Explore NCCU's permanent collection, watch documentaries at NCMA, go to a jazz concert, and more local ways to honor the ...

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

Since independence, Kenya has had five ‘top horses’ who won the presidency—Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi, Mwai Kibaki, Uhuru ...

Based on the feature documentaries nominated for an Academy Award over the last two years, it’s clear that if streaming ...

Negotiations have consistently failed because DRC is poorly led, the people are deeply divided and fighting amongst ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...