Mobutu's Game S01E01 Lumumba's shadow

In the shadow of independence fighter Patrice Lumumba, Mobutu works his way to the top. He becomes Lumumba's trusted confidant, while simultaneously sealing cunning alliances with the United States and Belgium. When Lumumba, following independence, becomes the West's public enemy number one, Mobutu takes a definitive stance: he stages a coup and cold-bloodedly helps in the murder of his mentor. Like a true Judas Iscariot, Mobutu not only betrayed Lumumba, but squelched the decolonization of the Congo in one fell swoop.