Johan Grimonprez
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Johan Grimonprez is a Belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator. He is most known for his films Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Double Take and Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, based on the boo
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Patrice Lumumba
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Patrice Émery Lumumba was a Congolese politician, independence leader and revolutionary who served as the first prime minister of the First Congolese Republic from June until September 1960, following
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…dream. On February 16, 1961, American jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash a UN Security Council meeting to protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime-minister of the Congo. Belgian embassies worldwide have to close their doors, as demonstrators are pelting eggs…
Lumumba in 1960
Photograph of Lumumba, c. 1950s
Lumumba in 1958
Lumumba pictured in Brussels at the Round Table Conference with other members of the MNC-L delegation, 26 January 1960