Lumumba's Assassination & the US's "Jazz Ambassadors" w/ Gerald Horne & Anthony Ballas (AR&D Ep. 14)
Guerrilla History
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this continuation of our African Revolutions and Decolonization series, we bring back two returning guests, Gerald Horne and Anthony Ballas, to discuss the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, and the U.S.'s "jazz ambassadors". A really stimulating discussion, we highly recommend you also check out our other episodes focused on the Congo to orient yourself historically here - The Congo - From Colonization Through Lumumba & Mobutu and The Situation in Congo - From Mobutu to M23 Rebels Today (both with Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja) and Mining the Congo w/ Josaphat Musamba, Germain Ngoie Tshibambe, & Ben Radley.
We also recommend you check out the previous episodes we have done with Dr. Horne, which include - Histories of Resistance in LA from 60's to Today, Texas and the Roots of U.S. Fascism, and The Counterrevolution of 1776
Anthony Ballas was also on the show recently, you can listen to the episode we did with him - Whiteness, Jake Paul, Boxing, & the Crisis of US Imperialism
Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research interests are unbelievably varied, encompassing biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, to The Haitian Revolution, to Hollywood in the '30s-'50s, to Jazz and Justice. Be sure to check out his bibliography, you're certain to find something that interests you!
Anthony Ballas is an organizer and a PhD student at Duke University. His work appears in Monthly Review, Protean Magazine, Caribbean Quarterly, 3:AM Magazine, Truthout, Middle West Review, CounterPunch, Scalawag Magazine, Peace, Land and Bread Magazine, and elsewhere. He also the host of the De Facto Podcast and co-host of Cold War Cinema.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:15.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history Ames to use the lessons of history to analyze the |
| 0:38.6 | present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-hosts Professor Adnan |
| 0:44.7 | Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? |
| 0:51.5 | I'm doing it okay, Henry. It's good to see you. |
| 0:53.7 | Nice to see you as well. |
| 0:55.2 | We have two returning guests today, but before we introduce them and the topic at hand, |
| 0:59.9 | I want to remind the listeners that they can help support the show and allow us to continue |
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| 1:18.8 | up and running. A brief note that this is going to be a continuation of our African |
| 1:24.4 | Revolutions and Decolonization Series and is going to be related to the Congo for |
| 1:29.6 | much of the conversation. |
| 1:32.5 | And we would like to remind you as well, listeners, that within our African Revolutions |
| 1:37.0 | and Decolonization Series, we have several episodes on the Congo that you should listen to. |
| 1:42.3 | We have two episodes with Professor Georges Nzangola and Talaja on the history that you should listen to. We have two episodes with Professor Georges |
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