Season 3: Episode 4: The end of the First Republic

In this episode we see the final throes of the Independent Katanga
and Kasai regions.  But Katanga in particular does not go down
without a very real fight.  It holds the line against the
United Nations no less, which increasingly adopts a more aggresive
position to enforce a united Repulic of the Congo.  But after
years of conflict and unrest people's dissapointment independence
presnts opportunities for new position.  Former enemies must
become friends in the face of more threatening opponents. 
After years of fighting an exhausted international community leaves
the Congo to it's fate.    In the dynamic politics of the
region, Communism is still looking for a foothold and in our final
extended episode of the season we see which superpower and ideology
puts their man at the top for the next tumultuous chapter of The
History of the Congo.   This part of history is a story
not often told but sets the scene as we enter the modern world ....