On a balmy evening in Khartoum, waiters glided across a clipped, floodlit
lawn to serve a well-heeled crowd canapés of chicken, salmon and shrimp. It
was the opening night of a film festival and, after some turgid speeches,
guests gathered under the stars to watch a
<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246765> biopic of Patrice Lumumba, the
Congolese independence fighter who overthrew a brutal and despotic
regime………………….