Wednesday 28th October 2009
Small World Cinema - Lumumba
28th October 2009
starts
19:00
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Accessible entrance at back door at 73 Beech Avenue
The Tuesday Night Project is organising the next Small World Cinema at the Sumac on Wednesday 28.10.09The film is called LUMUMBA
Vegan Food from around the world will be served at 7pm. Film 8pm
Admission Free . Donation for Food
LUMUMBA
A gripping epic that dramatizes, for the first time, the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba.
When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36 year old self-educated Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent State. Called "the politico of the bush" by journalists of the day, he became a lightning rod of Cold War politics as his vision of a united Africa gained him powerful enemies in Belgium and the US. Lumumba would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated.
Strikingly photographed in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Belgium, as civil war once again raged in the Congo, the film vividly re-creates the shocking events behind the birth of the country that became Zaire during the reign of Lumumba's former friend and eventual nemesis, Joseph Mobutu.
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