LUMUMBA: DEATH OF A PROPHET
A groundbreaking, personal analysis of the way politicians and the Western media manipulated the public image of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who was murdered in 1961. Lumumba was one of the most charismatic and controversial figures of the African struggle for independence in the 1960s. Filmmaker Raoul Peck, who grew up in Congo as the privileged son of an agricultural expert from Haiti, investigates why Lumumba failed to achieve his aims.