Jazz and decolonisation fuse in this unforgettable energising upbeat historical rollercoaster. Hotly tipped for Oscar and Bafta awards and featuring a mind-blowing who’s who of 60s jazz, culture and politics including Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Malcolm X, Nikita Khrushchev, and many more....
In 1960, sixteen newly independent African countries enter the United Nations, a political earthquake that shifts the majority vote from the colonial powers to the global south. Congo becomes the arena in which the battle over the UN is fought. As Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at the UN-top in reaction to the neo-colonial grab of the resources of newly independent Congo, UN delegates from African Countries are blackmailed.
In an incredulous twist Patrice Lumumba’s assassination unites the Afro-Asian block, demanding the UN General Assembly to vote for immediate worldwide decolonization.
A stirring, dynamic and jaw-dropping document of a time and sound like no other whose sound and vision demands the Big Screen.
