Screening: _Lumumba_ (Dir. Raoul Peck, 2000)
Tue., April 9, 7:30 p.m. 264 MacQuigg Lab, OSU 105 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH
At the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African continent. The Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. On June 30, 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became, at age 36, the first head of government of the new independent state. He would last two months in office. This is a true story.
_Lumumba_ is a gripping political thriller which tells the story of the legendary African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba. The brilliant and charismatic Lumumba rose rapidly to the office of Prime Minister when Belgium conceded the Congo's independence in June, 1960. Lumumba's populist and anti-imperialist vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies: the Belgian authorities, who sought to perpetuate neo-colonial control in their former colony's affairs, and the CIA, who supported Joseph Mobutu in order to protect U.S. business interests in Congo's vast resources and ensure U.S. dominance in the Cold War. The ruthless machinations behind Lumumba's brutal assassination in 1961 (a mere nine months after he became the country's first Prime Minister) are dramatized for the first time in _Lumumba_.
(For more info on _Lumumba_, visit <http://www.zeitgeistfilm.com/current/lumumba/lumumba.html>.)
Sponsors: the Student International Forum and Social Welfare Action Alliance. OSU campus map: <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html>. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; or Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
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