31. Lumumba Pt. 2

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Drama, History, Fiction

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

With enemies lurking in every corner, Patrice Lumumba is trapped in his own home. As the first democratically elected prime minister of the Congo, he planned to use the country’s natural wealth to improve the lives of its people, but secret actions by the US and Belgian governments stopped that from happening. These actions give a small indication of how far empires will go to hold onto power. Written by George the Poet Produced by Benbrick and George the poet Original Score by Benbrick, recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra Sound Design by Benbrick.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:08.3	Hello and welcome to Episode 31 of Habby Her Georgia's Podcast.
0:14.2	This is the third episode of Chapter 4 after Empire.
0:20.7	Excuse the blognos too much talking about the Cold War.
0:24.8	Eventually get a cold.
0:27.6	How much influence did the CIA have?
0:32.8	How much influence did Belgium really have?
0:36.8	How deep is the corruption?
0:40.1	Listening to your things like, you know, we were from the beginning and we were in trouble.
0:44.2	We had no chance.
0:46.6	I can say this is the real story of the African independence and all those politics.
0:54.3	But many Africans don't know it.
1:00.3	Let me set this scene.
1:03.0	It's 1960.
1:05.2	Things are tense between the US and the Soviets.
1:08.8	America is trying to detract from the attractiveness of communism and the Soviets
1:13.4	have started exposing something obvious.
1:18.3	America's racist.
1:20.8	That's why a segregation was dominating its politics.
1:24.9	So the US tried to clean up its image, downplay the negatives, highlight the positives.
1:31.4	That's why in October 1960, the jazz legend Louis Armstrong went on a tour.
1:38.6	It was sponsored by Pepsi, two months in Africa, South West East, Central and North.
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