Africa today looms large in the problems of the world. Laden with mineral wealth and natural resources and strategically situated below Eurasia and between two great oceans, the Atlantic and Indian, it is a prime target of the new colonialism of the twentieth century.
Africa’s indigenous people are newcomers to the civilized world as we know it today. Yet they are riding the great revolution of rising expectations and hold influential voices in the councils of the world.
In the heart of this emerging continent lies the Congo which is the embodiment of all the wealth and the conflict that characterize Africa itself.
From that new land there has come one voice that has captivated the imagination of the world. Moise Tshombe, though African to the marrow, understands the western world as well as the ambitions of the new colonialism that comes from the East.