A SEASON IN THE CONGO at MAYFESTO

Aime Cesaire spent a few months in the embryonic , and ultimately still born suffocated democracy of post-colonial Africas Congo State , a diamond and precious mineral paradise that was made into a hell due to external colonial interference and internal instability caused by the ex-colonial and corporate machinations to get access to the riches of Africa by arming and supporting compliant secessationist movements to foreign Interests.
The play he wrote about his time records the first democratically elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba rise from resistor to trying to maintain the country from destructive forces both from within and without splitting it apart.The story follows an all to familiar path of resistance to colonial rule , election of a highly popular leader , a coup from a Military strongman who becomes a dictator ( the reviled Mobuto) supported and dependent to the West to whom a barely veiled corrupt elite hands over the riches of the land for a trifling price , thus starting the cycle of ever increasing poverty and debt leading to violence and perpetual disorder.This play had never been shown in Scotland before and shows the audience how the fate of a nation and its civilians wellbeing can depend on the actions of so few unseen actors controlling the hands of a few.

The the highly informative Video below charts the History of Lumumba , Congo and Colonisation.