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Season 3: Episode 1: Independence Day
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Indpendence Day has arrived! WIth the Congolese now free from colonial rule there are celebrations everywhere.
With KasaVubu as President and Lumumba as Prime Minister the new government gets to work and for the first time the peoples elected officials start to run the country.
But as the celebrations recede not everyone feels included. The campaigns of the elections set the expectations extremely high. Soon people start to take their frustrations out on the previous establishment as the new world isn't quite as was expected.
Whilst this is happening other parts of the Republic of the Congo start to question their loyalty to the central government.
And this is just the first 10 days ...
28集单集
Manage episode 362178027 series 2850807
Indpendence Day has arrived! WIth the Congolese now free from colonial rule there are celebrations everywhere.
With KasaVubu as President and Lumumba as Prime Minister the new government gets to work and for the first time the peoples elected officials start to run the country.
But as the celebrations recede not everyone feels included. The campaigns of the elections set the expectations extremely high. Soon people start to take their frustrations out on the previous establishment as the new world isn't quite as was expected.
Whilst this is happening other parts of the Republic of the Congo start to question their loyalty to the central government.
And this is just the first 10 days ...
28集单集
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