Ekos Africa
Ekos Africa is a narrative historical podcast: every episode is built on a true historical account, told with fictionalized narrative structure (scene craft, pacing, dialogue reconstruction, inner-life speculation), while making it crystal-clear to listeners what’s documented vs dramatized.
The Last Days of Patrice Lumumba — The Chemist and the Crocodile (2/6)
The order came from the Oval Office. The weapon was hiding in the bathroom.
Washington D.C., August 1960. The Cold War is heating up, and patience is running out. In a secret meeting at the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower utters a sentence that will echo through history, wishing for Patrice Lumumba to simply "fall into a river full of crocodiles." The directive is clear: elimination.
But the CIA doesn't send a sniper. They send a scientist.
In Episode 2: The Chemist and the Crocodile, meet "Joe from Paris"—Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the CI...
The Last Days of Patrice Lumumba — The Speech and the Silence (1/6)
June 30, 1960. The day the script was burned.
In the stifling heat of Leopoldville, the stage is set for a polite transfer of power. King Baudouin of Belgium stands before the newly independent Congolese parliament, not to apologize for eighty years of brutality, but to praise the "genius" of his ancestor, King Leopold II—the man responsible for millions of deaths. The King expects gratitude. He expects order. He expects silence.
But Patrice Lumumba, the 35-year-old former postal clerk turned Prime Minister, has a different history to tell.
In Episode 1/6: The Speech and the Si...
