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Fängslande om jazzmusikerna som spelade när Kongo blev självständigt.

...the film more loosely stitches together a variety of media to fashion a stunning screed against colonial racism and state-sanctioned violence that reaches far beyond the years it directly covers.

...finger-popping theory of the conspiracy to kill Congo’s leader.

...explores the circumstances that led two American jazz musicians to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

...details with the twistiness of a real-life spy thriller, there were plenty others who wanted Lumumba dead.

It tells viewers how industrialist countries, primarily in the West, are still picking the bones of a broken promise decades later.