In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then ...

This was carried out through Lumumba's opponents in the Congo. In November 1960 he was kidnapped and taken to Katanga. In January 1961 he was shot in Elizabethville; his body was then dumped by a ...

Recording made for an episode of 'Congo Chronicle', a regular feature reporting on the Irish troops overseas, which aired weekly from August 1960-April 1963. Thom McGinty a familiar figure as The ...