Lumumba, Sankara and the Angolan Civil War

[Andropov]

Does anyone know of some good literature on any of the above?
Anything dealing with the over all history of the Congolese independance movement up to the civil war?
Also the life of Thomas Sankara and anything dealing with the Angolan civil war?

[erupt]

I have no actual physical literature.

If no one comes up with anything, though, I'd check MIA.

[bcbm]

'the congo from leopold to kabila: a people's history' by georges nzongola-ntalaja is a good introduction to the subject of the congo.

'another day of life' by ryszard kapuscinski is his memoir of several months spent in angola during the civil war. not a definitive account by any means, but worth checking out.

the suggestion of the marxist internet archive above is a good one, they have a lot of important stuff about africa. here's the link: https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/index.htm

[ckaihatsu]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246765/

Lumumba (2000)

115 min - Biography | Drama | History - 27 September 2000 (Belgium)

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.

- Written by L. J. Allen-2

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Here's the Collected Speeches of Patrice Lumumba (http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/shoulders-our-freedom-fighters/42970-collected-speeches-writings-patrice-lumumba.html) and I also found The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba by Ludo De Witte interesting as it lays out the major players and sets his assassination in context. Also, Jean-Paul Sartre's Colonialism and Neocolonialism (http://www.cui-zy.cn/Recommended/mathodology/SartreColonialism.pdf) has a chapter titled The Political Thought of Patrice Lumumba.