Jazz and decolonization intertwine in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to storm the UN Security Council in protest at the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. It’s 1961, six months after the admission of 16 newly independent African countries to the UN, a political earthquake occurs that shifts the majority vote from colonial powers to the Global South.
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