By Isabelle Christiaens, Jean-François Bastin
2010 | 52 min | Documentary
On 30 June 1960, the Congo became brutally independent. A historic symbol of hope and renewal, Patrice Lumumba was quickly put out of the running and assassinated. He thus became a curious and attentive observer of the upheavals in his country (from the reign of Mobutu to that of Kabila's son), which he recounts with passion in this third episode.
By Samuel Tilman, Isabelle Christiaens
2010 | 52 min | Animation
Through the colourful accounts of some Portuguese, French, Belgian and African pioneers, this first episode retraces the major stages of the European colonial occupation of the Congo... from the first Portuguese occupation in the 16th century to the victory of Leopold II and the establishment of a cruel system of exploitation in the 19th.
By Samuel Tilman, Isabelle Christiaens
2010 | 52 min | Documentary
In 1908, crushed by criticism, Leopold II cedes the Independent State of Congo to Belgium. In this second episode, the newly created Belgian Congo witnesses and observes the clash of ideals that takes place before its eyes... between a white community full of certainty and convinced of doing the right thing, on the one hand, and a black community torn between mixing and self-determination on the other.