Sixties

Fans of soul man James Brown, taken in 1965 in Bamako, Mali. Malick Sidibe/Tropen MuseumCongo’s first democratically elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba was a celebrity in Yugoslavia. Lumumba’s execution in 1961 caused such outrage that the Belgian embassy in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade was ransacked. Yugoslav leader Josip Tito was himself a regular visitor to Africa – he … [Read more...] about The Sixties and Red Africa: the decade of searching for African utopias | The Conversation