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Spectres
Sven Augustijnen
2011
SC / 504 pages / 16,5 x 24,5 cm
Published by
ASA Publishers, Brussels
Languages
EN, FR, NL
ISBN
ISBN 978 94 6117 009 5
If the 'communist infiltration of Africa' was a spectre often used tojustify the elimination of Patrice Lumumba, The assasination of the Congo's—indeed, Africa's—first democratically elected Prime Minister on 17 January 1961 created a spectre of it's own. Sir Jaques Brassinne de La Buissière, then a young Belgian functionary, was in Elisabethville on that fateful day. He has written several books on the subject, and spent more than thirty years trying to bring to light 'what really happened'. This supplement to Sven Augustijnen's film Spectres offers another look at the film's main character, who is at once guide, narrator, and symbol of a past that continues to cast its shadow on the present.
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Laureate for the Fernand Baudin Prize 2011
Price
39.00 euros
