In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) is currently not available on any services.
Patrice Lumumba , Louis Armstrong , Dizzy Gillespie , Abbey Lincoln , Nina Simone , John Coltrane
Johan Grimonprez
Onomatopee Films
