May this year will mark 28 years since the overthrow of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – or Zaire – longest-serving leader, Mobutu Sese Seko. The man who loved to be called “Mobutu ...

This film is the result of more than two years of work tracking down archive material and witnesses close to Mobutu in Africa, Europe and the U.S. More than 950 hours of footage have been seen by ...

General Mobutu seized power in the Congo in 1960 with CIA backing after the Belgians abandoned their former colony. His first coup eliminated the Soviet-backed Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba ...