Rhythm of Death
Broadcast: 30th December 1950
Added: Aug 21 2003
Inside a tiny engineers shack at uranium mine near the village of Kutu in the Belgian Congo two white men sit in pitch darkness watching. Watching the natives outside dressed in the skins and claws of leopards and panthers as they writhe and turn in the firelight to the age-old rhythm of the Congo drums. The rhythms of death…