Gladwyn d’SouzaHappy birthday Lumumba: Legendary African-American musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone were sent as decoys to deflect attention from America’s first African post-colonial coup, unbeknownst to the actual artists of course. As the film notes, “America’s secret weapon is a blue note in a minor key,” and in the same New York Times article, Louis Armstrong was quoted as “its most effective ambassador.”
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