Until his final days, Frantz Fanon was deeply shaken by the murder of his friend Patrice Lumumba, carried out in coordination between Belgian and CIA agents and their Congolese partners. Lumumba’s assassination is the founding violence of  neocolonialism that ushered in a new era that we still live today. 

Part one of BFMAF Focus Strand, Ways of Seeing Fanon

Lumumba Death of a Prophet (Lumumba, la mort d’un prophète)

 – In the infinite nighttime beauty of the African savannah, two men have been given the task of disposing of three dead bodies. So ended Patrice Lumumba’s life, the man who was the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Republic of the Congo for just three months. But this is also where his story begins.​​ 

Dir. Raoul Peck | Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Germany, Switzerland | 1991 | 69’ | English Subtitles