A Season in the Congo; Too Clever By Half " review by Clare Brennan

Young Vic, London; Royal Exchange, ManchesterPatrice Lumumba was democratically elected prime minister of Congo on 23 June 1960. Seven days later, the country gained independence from Belgian colonial rule. By January 1961 Lumumba was dead " shot in murky circumstances that involved Congolese dissenters and foreign powers. His story is the core of Martinican poet, playwright and politician Aimé Césaire's 1966 "deco…

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