The acclaimed filmmaker also discusses using music as “a historical agent” to investigate the dark colonial history of his native Belgium: "While politics is all about divide-and-conquer, it's the ...

The recent coup d’état in Gabon marks the latest casualty of the “coup contagion” spreading across Africa. Given the frenetic pace of the minute-by-minute news cycle of the social media era, it’s easy ...

The US State Department is preparing to officially designate the military takeover in Niger as a coup d’etat as soon as next week, three US officials told CNN, a decision which could have dramatic ...

A coup d’etat is a French term that means the overthrow of a government, usually by illegal means and with the threat of violence. Experts said Democrats persuading President Joe Biden to drop out of ...

In 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech to the United Nations, nobly imploring member nations to allow Congo to emerge independent of colonial power Belgium. “The people of the Congo are ...

Director Johan Grimonprez delves into Belgium's past to investigate the plot against Congolese independence. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Louis Armstrong arrived in the Congolese capital, ...

The fascinating documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’État tracks the timeline and multiple threads in the early 1960s involving Africa’s colonial racism, keen interest in Congo’s uranium mining and ...

Rendered in non-linear fashion, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat unfolds in three acts: an insight into the frosty relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the use ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

Are Donald Trump and his associates planning a coup if they lose control of Congress following a possible Democratic victory in the 2026 elections? And, if not in ’26, what about 2030 election? In ...