The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

The Davis Friends Meeting will show the film “SoundTrack to a Coup d’Etat” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13 at the Meetinghouse at ...

The Ministry of Interior has been directed to comb the country thoroughly for defaulting aliens and aliens arrested for ...

The 1990s brought some positive changes. With the end of the Cold War, dozens of African countries experienced ...

A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and ...

Elon Musk is rapidly and illegally consolidating personal control over large swaths of the federal government with President ...

We talked with filmmakers and a historian about the tragedy in Wilmington in 1898, who say it's important to look back and ...

Widely seen as West Africa’s leading political and regional authority, the 15-nation ECOWAS was formed in 1975 to “promote ...

COTONOU, Benin — Two associates of Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison, following their arrest last ...