Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.

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Patrice Lumumba

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Louis Armstrong

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Andrée Blouin

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Abbey Lincoln

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Max Roach

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Malcolm X

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Nina Simone

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John Coltrane

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Duke Ellington

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Miriam Makeba

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Conor Cruise O’Brien

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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René Magritte

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Allen Dulles

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In Koli Jean Bofane

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Fidel Castro

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