Season 3: Episode 1: Independence Day

Indpendence Day has arrived!  WIth the Congolese now free from
colonial rule there are celebrations everywhere.  With
KasaVubu as President and Lumumba as Prime Minister the new
government gets to work and for the first time the peoples elected
officials start to run the country.  But as the celebrations
recede not everyone feels included.  The campaigns of the
elections set the expectations extremely high.  Soon people
start to take their frustrations out on the previous establishment
as the new world isn't quite as was expected.   Whilst
this is happening other parts of the Republic of the Congo start to
question their loyalty to the central government.   And
this is just the first 10 days ...