1 00:00:00,875 --> 00:00:04,208 (slow orchestral music) 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:24,375 --> 00:00:27,917 (upbeat orchestral music) 5 00:00:28,875 --> 00:00:31,834 - Good evening, this is Ulric Cross. 6 00:00:31,917 --> 00:00:35,291 I'm here in the studio with Mr. CLR James. 7 00:00:36,125 --> 00:00:38,625 - To understand this moment in time, 8 00:00:38,709 --> 00:00:41,208 you need to take a wider view of history. 9 00:00:43,166 --> 00:00:45,875 Take a man like JJ Thomas, 1886, 10 00:00:47,041 --> 00:00:49,667 he predicted that the descendants of African people, 11 00:00:49,750 --> 00:00:50,917 now dispersed in various countries 12 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,792 of the western hemisphere must begin occupying themselves 13 00:00:53,875 --> 00:00:56,625 in matters of racial importance. 14 00:00:56,709 --> 00:00:59,625 All of a sudden, we begin to have an identity, 15 00:00:59,709 --> 00:01:01,792 the creation of a consciousness, a movement 16 00:01:01,875 --> 00:01:05,291 that is about racial importance. 17 00:01:06,834 --> 00:01:10,000 The First World War, we have West Indian soldiers, 18 00:01:10,083 --> 00:01:12,917 African soldiers, colored American soldiers, 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,917 met in the trenches of Europe, 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,792 fighting for king and country, dying. 21 00:01:17,875 --> 00:01:19,959 We have the Russian Revolution in 1917. 22 00:01:20,041 --> 00:01:20,750 - That's the year I was born. 23 00:01:20,834 --> 00:01:24,458 - Then you were born for freedom. 24 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:34,125 Us West Indian people always were a rebellious people. 25 00:01:36,250 --> 00:01:36,875 - That is true. (both laughing) 26 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,291 - Trinidadian exceptionalism. 27 00:01:42,917 --> 00:01:45,291 (slow music) 28 00:01:48,083 --> 00:01:51,333 - [Nicola] My name is Nicola Zawadi Cross. 29 00:01:51,417 --> 00:01:55,000 I have no knowledge of his life before me. 30 00:01:56,583 --> 00:01:57,500 - [Interviewer] How shall I address you? 31 00:01:57,583 --> 00:02:01,542 - As Ulric. (laughs) 32 00:02:03,125 --> 00:02:04,417 - [Nicola] I feel like I could kick myself 33 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:07,291 for not having started this before. 34 00:02:09,375 --> 00:02:11,375 - When I was appointed High Commissioner in London, 35 00:02:11,458 --> 00:02:13,208 the Foreign Office in London asked, 36 00:02:13,291 --> 00:02:15,750 how did I wish to be addressed? 37 00:02:15,834 --> 00:02:20,166 Judge, which I had been, professor, which I had been, 38 00:02:21,458 --> 00:02:25,291 squadron leader, which I had been. (laughs) 39 00:02:25,375 --> 00:02:28,208 - [Nicola] It's just so silly that it takes, 40 00:02:28,291 --> 00:02:31,625 it takes some dying for this to happen. 41 00:02:34,875 --> 00:02:38,333 ♪ That's how it is ♪ 42 00:02:38,417 --> 00:02:39,417 ♪ That's how it is ♪ 43 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:45,125 ♪ These are the times we ♪ were told would come ♪ 44 00:02:51,375 --> 00:02:55,250 - Okay, I guess let's just start at the beginning, okay? 45 00:02:58,208 --> 00:02:59,208 So where were you born? 46 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:05,583 - I was born in Port of Spain, Belmont, precisely. 47 00:03:06,709 --> 00:03:09,333 (dogs barking) 48 00:03:14,166 --> 00:03:15,875 I was born in Port of Spain, Belmont, 49 00:03:15,959 --> 00:03:17,667 on the tiny island of Trinidad. 50 00:03:17,750 --> 00:03:18,750 (door knocking) 51 00:03:18,834 --> 00:03:20,709 - [Maud] Hello, welcome. 52 00:03:20,792 --> 00:03:22,667 - [Reginald] Hi. 53 00:03:22,750 --> 00:03:23,750 Hello. - How are you doing? 54 00:03:23,834 --> 00:03:24,834 - [Reginald] Welcome, welcome. 55 00:03:24,917 --> 00:03:26,667 - [Daphne] Yeah, he's gonna have a good time. 56 00:03:26,750 --> 00:03:29,000 - Welcome, great, how are you? 57 00:03:29,083 --> 00:03:30,417 (slow jazzy music) (overlapping chattering) 58 00:03:30,500 --> 00:03:31,667 You're welcome to have some drinks, 59 00:03:31,750 --> 00:03:32,458 help yourself to something to eat. 60 00:03:32,542 --> 00:03:34,500 - [Ulric] We were proud colonials. 61 00:03:34,583 --> 00:03:37,000 On special occasions, my parents would dress up 62 00:03:37,083 --> 00:03:40,291 and invite their small circle of friends. 63 00:03:40,375 --> 00:03:42,458 - Do you drink? - Oh, yes. 64 00:03:42,542 --> 00:03:44,333 - [Ulric] I can see them all now. 65 00:03:47,041 --> 00:03:49,667 My mother was my whole world. 66 00:03:49,750 --> 00:03:53,417 (singing in foreign language) 67 00:03:54,709 --> 00:03:57,125 - [Ciel] Come on, let me get some of it on here. 68 00:03:57,208 --> 00:03:59,166 - [Ulric] My uncle, C.L. Williams, my childhood hero, 69 00:03:59,250 --> 00:04:04,250 a bigshot, inspector of Inland Revenue. 70 00:04:05,542 --> 00:04:07,417 My Aunt Daphne went to America 71 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:10,333 and came back with some fancy dances. 72 00:04:10,417 --> 00:04:13,458 (singing in foreign language) 73 00:04:15,583 --> 00:04:18,375 And Auntie V, with those light eyes and skin, 74 00:04:18,458 --> 00:04:20,709 all the guys wanted to go to her. 75 00:04:20,792 --> 00:04:24,458 (singing in foreign language) 76 00:04:30,542 --> 00:04:33,625 We were the creme de la creme of the brown middle class, 77 00:04:33,709 --> 00:04:37,417 not black, not white, but sandwiched between. 78 00:04:41,834 --> 00:04:43,208 Trapped in that colonial moment. 79 00:04:43,291 --> 00:04:46,500 (group applauds) 80 00:04:46,583 --> 00:04:49,041 - [Ciel] Thank you very much. 81 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:52,917 - Okay, lights out. 82 00:05:02,417 --> 00:05:05,709 - [Ulric] I was the one they pinned their hopes on, 83 00:05:05,792 --> 00:05:10,000 the bright one, the star boy, I read all the time. 84 00:05:11,458 --> 00:05:15,667 I would go away to a university and become a lawyer. 85 00:05:15,750 --> 00:05:18,458 First I had to win a scholarship to high school, 86 00:05:18,542 --> 00:05:19,875 the coveted Exhibition. (slow jazzy music) 87 00:05:19,959 --> 00:05:21,375 - What are the islands around England? 88 00:05:21,458 --> 00:05:22,667 - [Students] Gugh Island, Walney Island, 89 00:05:22,750 --> 00:05:27,709 Isle of Wight. 90 00:05:29,667 --> 00:05:30,875 - [Teacher] Seven nines. 91 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:34,542 - [Ulric] Education, education, education. 92 00:05:34,625 --> 00:05:37,709 In those days, it was beaten into us. 93 00:05:38,625 --> 00:05:39,542 - Ulric? 94 00:05:41,959 --> 00:05:42,417 Wake up, Ulric. 95 00:05:46,041 --> 00:05:48,834 The Exhibition, you got in. 96 00:05:48,917 --> 00:05:52,166 I'm so proud of you, congratulations, oh. 97 00:05:52,250 --> 00:05:54,625 (slow acoustic guitar music) 98 00:05:54,709 --> 00:05:56,875 And you came first on the island. 99 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:57,792 - [Ulric] I remember the morning 100 00:05:57,875 --> 00:06:00,208 my mother told me the good news, I had got 101 00:06:00,291 --> 00:06:02,583 into the best college in the country. 102 00:06:02,667 --> 00:06:05,333 Only eight boys on the island got that. 103 00:06:05,417 --> 00:06:10,417 My father gave me a gold watch and a bachelor coat. 104 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:12,959 The whole town celebrated. 105 00:06:13,041 --> 00:06:17,375 (background noise drowns out speaker) 106 00:06:25,542 --> 00:06:26,000 (Ulric cries) 107 00:06:26,083 --> 00:06:28,458 Then my mother died. 108 00:06:41,875 --> 00:06:45,291 My father left to seek work in Venezuela. 109 00:06:46,625 --> 00:06:48,041 I was devastated. 110 00:06:49,291 --> 00:06:53,250 We were taken in by a neighbor, Ms. Small, 111 00:06:53,333 --> 00:06:54,291 and learned the rules of the real world. 112 00:06:54,375 --> 00:06:57,083 - [Ms. Small] Whenever we sit at the table, 113 00:06:57,166 --> 00:07:00,667 we don't ever put our elbows on the table. 114 00:07:00,750 --> 00:07:03,750 - [Ulric] White is right, wrong is wrong. 115 00:07:03,834 --> 00:07:06,500 - Okay, that's okay, and you sit up. 116 00:07:06,583 --> 00:07:08,000 - [Ulric] Sit up straight, smile discreetly, 117 00:07:08,083 --> 00:07:10,291 don't be loud. 118 00:07:10,375 --> 00:07:12,417 - Very good, in the name of the Father 119 00:07:12,500 --> 00:07:13,959 and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 120 00:07:14,041 --> 00:07:16,333 - [Ulric] Fit in. 121 00:07:16,417 --> 00:07:19,625 - These thy gifts through Christ our Lord, amen, eat up. 122 00:07:21,583 --> 00:07:24,792 - [Ulric] I went off the rails completely. 123 00:07:24,875 --> 00:07:28,875 My school work suffered, I lost the scholarship. 124 00:07:30,583 --> 00:07:34,208 At 15, I left school and went out to work. 125 00:07:37,750 --> 00:07:39,875 Without education-- - Morning, Cross. 126 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:43,333 - [Ulric] My opportunities were limited. 127 00:07:44,125 --> 00:07:45,959 One dead end job after another. 128 00:07:46,041 --> 00:07:47,542 - A hard day, it were a hard day. 129 00:07:47,625 --> 00:07:48,375 - [Ulric] So in my spare time, me and a few 130 00:07:48,458 --> 00:07:51,375 of the boys started a reading group. 131 00:07:51,458 --> 00:07:54,792 We read everything we could get our hands on. 132 00:07:54,875 --> 00:07:57,500 - [Man In Brown Jacket] I won this story, I won this too. 133 00:07:57,583 --> 00:07:59,542 - [Ulric] Our abode was in Trinidad, 134 00:07:59,625 --> 00:08:01,166 but we lived in the world. 135 00:08:01,250 --> 00:08:02,458 - [Man In Brown Shirt] If you read him, 136 00:08:02,542 --> 00:08:04,417 he has no ancestors, you're not coming down from that. 137 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:06,542 - [Ulric] We got down Hitler's "Mein Kampf." 138 00:08:06,625 --> 00:08:09,375 - That negro peoples possess no needs of tradition. 139 00:08:09,458 --> 00:08:12,041 (overlapping chattering) 140 00:08:12,125 --> 00:08:16,250 (speaking in foreign language) 141 00:08:17,291 --> 00:08:20,291 Hitler had conquered the whole of Europe. 142 00:08:20,375 --> 00:08:21,542 Britain alone stood firm. 143 00:08:21,625 --> 00:08:23,959 - I'm tired. - Well, that's why we're here. 144 00:08:24,041 --> 00:08:25,959 - [Ulric] we knew that war was inevitable. 145 00:08:26,041 --> 00:08:27,500 It was our job to protect the mother country. 146 00:08:27,583 --> 00:08:32,125 - We are a colonial nation, England is wasted. 147 00:08:32,208 --> 00:08:33,417 I can't take him no more now. 148 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:36,041 - [Radio Announcer] I am speaking to you 149 00:08:36,125 --> 00:08:38,500 from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. 150 00:08:38,583 --> 00:08:41,125 This morning, the British Ambassador 151 00:08:41,208 --> 00:08:43,417 in Berlin, indeed, the German government-- 152 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:45,500 - [Ulric] This was my chance to get out, 153 00:08:45,583 --> 00:08:49,250 to escape our narrow colonial society. 154 00:08:49,333 --> 00:08:50,959 I signed up for training. 155 00:08:51,041 --> 00:08:52,542 - [Radio Announcer] I have to tell you now 156 00:08:52,625 --> 00:08:54,875 that no such undertaking has been received, 157 00:08:54,959 --> 00:08:59,792 and as a consequence, this country is at war with Germany. 158 00:09:02,583 --> 00:09:06,291 - [Ulric] Three years later, I was called to duty. 159 00:09:06,375 --> 00:09:08,125 - And all I see is sheep. 160 00:09:08,208 --> 00:09:10,542 (men laughing) 161 00:09:10,625 --> 00:09:13,375 You know, you remind me of somebody I used to know. 162 00:09:13,458 --> 00:09:14,333 - Ulric. 163 00:09:15,291 --> 00:09:17,500 - Anthony Macfarlane, you can call me Pony. 164 00:09:17,583 --> 00:09:20,083 - Okay, Pony. - You're Pony? (laughs) 165 00:09:20,166 --> 00:09:22,625 - What are you laughing for? 166 00:09:22,709 --> 00:09:23,792 - I'm picking up on an accent there. 167 00:09:23,875 --> 00:09:24,375 The first time I met Pony. 168 00:09:24,458 --> 00:09:26,542 - Jamaica. - Jamaica? 169 00:09:26,625 --> 00:09:28,500 It was on the train, coming down from Sheffield 170 00:09:28,583 --> 00:09:30,542 to RAF Training Camp, London. 171 00:09:30,625 --> 00:09:31,875 Trinidad. 172 00:09:31,959 --> 00:09:33,000 - I hear, boy, that's a place. 173 00:09:33,083 --> 00:09:35,625 (men laughing) 174 00:09:36,792 --> 00:09:37,959 - [Ulric] He reminded me so much 175 00:09:38,041 --> 00:09:41,333 of my Uncle C.L., same self importance. 176 00:09:41,417 --> 00:09:42,500 - You know when you arrive in London, 177 00:09:42,583 --> 00:09:44,208 you have to look sharp, you know, sport. 178 00:09:44,291 --> 00:09:45,166 - Right. 179 00:09:58,834 --> 00:10:01,542 - [Kofi] Hey, brother, can I get a cigarette? 180 00:10:01,625 --> 00:10:02,959 - Oh, sure, man. 181 00:10:08,417 --> 00:10:09,250 What's the name? 182 00:10:09,333 --> 00:10:11,166 - Oh, Kofi Mensah. 183 00:10:11,250 --> 00:10:14,583 - Kofi Mensah, Kofi Mensah, Ulric Cross. 184 00:10:14,667 --> 00:10:17,291 I knew right away we would be great friends. 185 00:10:17,375 --> 00:10:19,250 - [Kofi] Of course, yes. 186 00:10:19,333 --> 00:10:20,291 - Where are you from? 187 00:10:20,375 --> 00:10:21,500 - I'm from Gold Coast. 188 00:10:21,583 --> 00:10:23,417 - [Ulric] Gold Coast? 189 00:10:24,250 --> 00:10:24,959 - In Africa. 190 00:10:25,041 --> 00:10:27,125 - Africa? 191 00:10:27,208 --> 00:10:29,709 - Yeah, but I am going to drop bombs 192 00:10:29,792 --> 00:10:32,208 on Hitler personally, myself. 193 00:10:33,625 --> 00:10:34,500 - Yeah, me too, I read Hitler's book-- 194 00:10:34,583 --> 00:10:36,625 - "Mein Kampf," yeah. - "Mein Kampf." 195 00:10:36,709 --> 00:10:37,834 He's just a ripe old bastard, man. 196 00:10:37,917 --> 00:10:43,041 We saw eye to eye on most things, especially women. 197 00:10:43,125 --> 00:10:45,166 I like a little milk with my coffee. 198 00:10:45,250 --> 00:10:50,208 I was headed for a big adventure and had two new friends. 199 00:10:50,291 --> 00:10:53,834 I had no real knowing then how it would shape my life. 200 00:10:55,917 --> 00:10:59,000 - [Kofi] Let's just go and kill Hitler. 201 00:11:03,792 --> 00:11:05,291 - I had never even been to Tobago. 202 00:11:05,375 --> 00:11:07,834 (upbeat music) 203 00:11:09,792 --> 00:11:12,208 Yet England felt like home to me. 204 00:11:12,291 --> 00:11:13,875 My uncle was a doctor in Bolton. 205 00:11:13,959 --> 00:11:17,166 Every month, he sent a supply of English newspapers, 206 00:11:17,250 --> 00:11:21,250 Trafalgar Square, Soho Square, an English bobby. 207 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:26,375 Picadilly. 208 00:11:27,792 --> 00:11:31,667 Wait till everybody back home hears about this. 209 00:11:33,250 --> 00:11:35,834 (Kofi laughs) 210 00:11:35,917 --> 00:11:38,083 What's a matter with you, man? 211 00:11:38,166 --> 00:11:41,125 - [Kofi] Read the bottom paragraph. 212 00:11:41,208 --> 00:11:45,667 - Are you of pure European descent? (laughs) 213 00:11:45,750 --> 00:11:46,750 Well, we both know what the answer 214 00:11:46,834 --> 00:11:48,166 to that question is, right? 215 00:11:48,250 --> 00:11:49,208 - Of course. 216 00:11:49,291 --> 00:11:50,291 - Yes? - No. 217 00:11:51,417 --> 00:11:52,542 - What do you mean by no? 218 00:11:52,625 --> 00:11:54,083 - Yes, no. 219 00:11:54,166 --> 00:11:56,458 I'm not a white man. - Oh. 220 00:11:56,542 --> 00:11:59,542 - I am an African, so are you. 221 00:11:59,625 --> 00:12:03,834 - Never, I'm just as European as anybody else here. 222 00:12:03,917 --> 00:12:08,208 - Okay, well, you just put "yes," I put "no," see how far. 223 00:12:21,834 --> 00:12:23,000 - Did you understand the question? 224 00:12:23,083 --> 00:12:25,583 (siren wails) 225 00:12:25,667 --> 00:12:29,792 - Coloreds couldn't fly planes, they said. 226 00:12:29,875 --> 00:12:34,208 It was two long years before I finally got my chance. 227 00:12:34,291 --> 00:12:37,375 (explosion rumbles) 228 00:12:44,959 --> 00:12:48,000 Britain was losing the war badly. 229 00:12:48,083 --> 00:12:49,792 We were not hitting our targets. 230 00:12:49,875 --> 00:12:52,625 Our job was to turn that around. 231 00:12:53,917 --> 00:12:56,834 139 Division Pathfinder Force, no one knew about it, 232 00:12:58,583 --> 00:13:00,458 a special elite force. 233 00:13:02,041 --> 00:13:06,959 I was a navigator, the only West Indian in my squadron. 234 00:13:07,041 --> 00:13:07,750 600 meters. 235 00:13:09,250 --> 00:13:11,750 We left Sheffield by night in formation, 236 00:13:11,834 --> 00:13:15,583 arriving in France three hours later, 237 00:13:15,667 --> 00:13:18,125 keeping low, treetop height, 315. 238 00:13:18,208 --> 00:13:22,291 Just me and the pilot in the tiny cabin. 239 00:13:22,375 --> 00:13:26,458 Those small wooden planes, Mosquitoes, were fast. 240 00:13:27,542 --> 00:13:30,375 We flew close to the ground, 241 00:13:30,458 --> 00:13:32,458 the better to see the targets. 242 00:13:32,542 --> 00:13:32,917 Drop the flare. 243 00:13:36,625 --> 00:13:41,166 The bombers coming behind had 10 seconds to hit the target. 244 00:13:41,250 --> 00:13:44,583 (slow orchestral music) 245 00:13:48,417 --> 00:13:52,291 (explosion rumbles) 246 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,500 With a break in the clouds, and we're out. 247 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,250 (slow brass music) 248 00:14:14,875 --> 00:14:18,583 - And now I'm going to ask flying officer Ulric Cross 249 00:14:18,667 --> 00:14:21,041 to speak for West Indians in the services. 250 00:14:21,125 --> 00:14:23,875 Ulric is a navigator in one of our own bomber squadrons. 251 00:14:23,959 --> 00:14:26,250 - [Ulric] The Pathfinders found their target. 252 00:14:26,333 --> 00:14:27,834 - Well, it's a jumping over at the start. 253 00:14:27,917 --> 00:14:31,000 If I could navigate you on a magic carpet. 254 00:14:31,083 --> 00:14:33,834 - [Ulric] We changed the course of the war. 255 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:38,375 - [Nurse] Is it hurting? 256 00:14:38,458 --> 00:14:39,333 - Mm? 257 00:14:43,125 --> 00:14:44,458 All right, yeah. 258 00:14:46,083 --> 00:14:48,166 What 259 00:14:48,250 --> 00:14:51,125 I can say is, to use an expression, 260 00:14:52,375 --> 00:14:54,667 I have courted death, 261 00:14:54,750 --> 00:14:58,542 in that I have flown 80 missions over Germany. 262 00:15:00,667 --> 00:15:01,917 - 80 missions? 263 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,125 - Without a rest, so you could take a rest, 264 00:15:04,208 --> 00:15:08,125 you would take a rest at 30, you could take a rest at 50. 265 00:15:08,208 --> 00:15:09,875 I took no rests. 266 00:15:09,959 --> 00:15:11,125 - Why? 267 00:15:11,208 --> 00:15:12,959 - Why was, I don't know, I don't know, 268 00:15:13,041 --> 00:15:16,458 I have no idea. (laughs) 269 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:20,750 And no, I never thought why I did that. 270 00:15:20,834 --> 00:15:23,583 - [Nicola] But weren't you scared? 271 00:15:23,667 --> 00:15:27,583 - I think I would die, my last 30 I assumed I would die 272 00:15:27,667 --> 00:15:28,959 in one of those. 273 00:15:31,291 --> 00:15:33,208 But I didn't. 274 00:15:34,917 --> 00:15:36,083 Don't know I know why. 275 00:15:36,166 --> 00:15:37,500 - [Nicola] God, Dad. 276 00:15:37,583 --> 00:15:41,041 - [Nurse] Okay, I'm just going to bend your knee a little. 277 00:15:41,125 --> 00:15:43,583 Just bend. Pull it towards me... Okay. 278 00:15:43,667 --> 00:15:46,709 (slow jazzy music) 279 00:15:48,792 --> 00:15:52,166 - [Ulric] The announcement came that the war had ended. 280 00:15:52,250 --> 00:15:56,041 ♪ Your charm, little girl ♪ 281 00:15:56,125 --> 00:15:58,000 - I love your smile, look at you. 282 00:16:00,125 --> 00:16:01,417 I had survived. 283 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:04,792 ♪ The fire of your kiss ♪ 284 00:16:06,291 --> 00:16:07,542 - Do you dance? 285 00:16:07,625 --> 00:16:08,917 - Yeah, I'm a good dancer. 286 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:09,625 - Yeah? 287 00:16:09,709 --> 00:16:10,834 - Yeah, I love dancing. 288 00:16:10,917 --> 00:16:12,375 - Really? - Mm-hmm. 289 00:16:12,458 --> 00:16:14,709 ♪ For I do ♪ 290 00:16:14,792 --> 00:16:15,750 - Ulric from Trinidad. 291 00:16:15,834 --> 00:16:17,333 - Hey, Pony. 292 00:16:17,417 --> 00:16:17,709 - You're still alive. 293 00:16:17,792 --> 00:16:19,041 - You too. 294 00:16:19,959 --> 00:16:21,583 - To the future, man. 295 00:16:21,667 --> 00:16:25,834 - [Ulric] Okay, I felt uncomfortable with the word hero. 296 00:16:25,917 --> 00:16:28,333 I was a soldier doing a job and I did it well. 297 00:16:28,417 --> 00:16:32,125 (people cheering) 298 00:16:39,542 --> 00:16:42,417 I proved that I was as good, 299 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:45,000 no, better, than any Englishman. 300 00:16:47,166 --> 00:16:49,333 Now it was time to get on with my life. 301 00:16:49,417 --> 00:16:52,417 (upbeat brass music) 302 00:16:55,333 --> 00:16:56,834 ♪ It's love, it's love all over ♪ 303 00:16:56,917 --> 00:16:59,750 ♪ The (mumbles) was to be the proof ♪ 304 00:16:59,834 --> 00:17:02,166 - [Ulric] I went home to Trinidad. 305 00:17:02,250 --> 00:17:05,917 ♪ Love, love all over, I'd ♪ crossing Heaven to be with her ♪ 306 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,750 - [Ulric] I petitioned the governor 307 00:17:07,834 --> 00:17:11,709 for a scholarship to study law, but he refused. 308 00:17:12,750 --> 00:17:16,917 He said there were too many lawyers in Trinidad. 309 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,500 - [Reporter] Now, may I ask you your name? 310 00:17:18,583 --> 00:17:19,250 - Lord Kitchener. 311 00:17:19,333 --> 00:17:20,875 - Lord Kitchener, now I am told 312 00:17:20,959 --> 00:17:22,583 that you are really the king of calypso singers, 313 00:17:22,667 --> 00:17:23,417 is that right? - Yes, that's true. 314 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:24,583 - [Reporter] Will you sing for us? 315 00:17:24,667 --> 00:17:25,375 - Right now? 316 00:17:25,458 --> 00:17:26,166 - Yes. 317 00:17:26,250 --> 00:17:28,959 ♪ London is the place for me to ♪ 318 00:17:29,041 --> 00:17:31,625 - [Reporter] And why did you come to England? 319 00:17:31,709 --> 00:17:32,834 - To seek a job. 320 00:17:32,917 --> 00:17:34,750 - And what sort of job do you want? 321 00:17:34,834 --> 00:17:37,291 - Any type, so long as I get a good pay. 322 00:17:37,375 --> 00:17:38,959 ♪ Go to France or America ♪ 323 00:17:39,041 --> 00:17:42,500 ♪ India, Asia, or Australia, ♪ but you must come back ♪ 324 00:17:42,583 --> 00:17:44,041 - [Kofi] I don't know why you came back to this country. 325 00:17:44,125 --> 00:17:46,000 - If you'd asked me before I was celebrated 326 00:17:46,083 --> 00:17:47,125 as a hero, here in England. 327 00:17:47,208 --> 00:17:50,625 The most decorated West Indian, as a matter of fact, 328 00:17:50,709 --> 00:17:52,667 and then I go back home to some stupid little island, 329 00:17:52,750 --> 00:17:55,625 Trinidad, to have them tell me that I can't be a lawyer, 330 00:17:55,709 --> 00:17:57,875 because why, they have too many lawyers in Trinidad? 331 00:17:57,959 --> 00:17:59,166 It's a good thing I had enough contacts 332 00:17:59,250 --> 00:18:00,667 to get me a job at the Colonial Office. 333 00:18:00,750 --> 00:18:03,000 - There's nothing here for you. 334 00:18:03,083 --> 00:18:04,417 (slow harp music) 335 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:08,542 - [Ulric] Kofi was right, things had changed in England. 336 00:18:10,667 --> 00:18:12,333 - I need a job. 337 00:18:12,417 --> 00:18:13,834 - Just give me a minute. 338 00:18:13,917 --> 00:18:14,959 - [Man In Red Tie] I have a very complicated background, 339 00:18:15,041 --> 00:18:15,834 you see, I was in the army for two years. 340 00:18:15,917 --> 00:18:17,917 - [Ulric] Despite our sacrifice, 341 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,875 jobs and housing were hard to come by. 342 00:18:20,959 --> 00:18:23,333 - [Man In Red Tie] Help me find some work. 343 00:18:23,417 --> 00:18:24,834 - Mr. Chovo, West Indian docks, 344 00:18:24,917 --> 00:18:28,333 yes, bright and early Monday morning, 8:00 am sharp. 345 00:18:28,417 --> 00:18:30,166 I was lucky, my war buddy, Pony, 346 00:18:32,208 --> 00:18:34,834 got me a desk job at the Colonial Office. 347 00:18:34,917 --> 00:18:38,000 - Sport, not coming out tonight? 348 00:18:38,083 --> 00:18:39,166 - No, not tonight. 349 00:18:39,250 --> 00:18:42,792 But this was not what I risked my life for. 350 00:18:43,667 --> 00:18:46,083 I worked by day and studied by night. 351 00:18:48,625 --> 00:18:52,583 (slow orchestral music) 352 00:18:52,667 --> 00:18:54,208 I passed the bar in 14 months. 353 00:19:04,125 --> 00:19:05,000 Hi. 354 00:19:09,417 --> 00:19:13,750 Yet all of my applications for work were fruitless. 355 00:19:19,125 --> 00:19:22,542 - [Kofi What fulfills you, Ulric? 356 00:19:22,625 --> 00:19:23,667 - [Ulric] What do you mean, what fulfills me? 357 00:19:23,750 --> 00:19:27,083 - After all these years trapped in the same system, 358 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:28,333 you are happy? 359 00:19:29,250 --> 00:19:30,875 "I am Ulric Cross, 360 00:19:30,959 --> 00:19:34,750 "I am here to represent all the colored folk. 361 00:19:34,834 --> 00:19:37,250 "I won't bite, I won't harm you, I'm harmless. 362 00:19:37,333 --> 00:19:42,083 "I'm not a cannibal," if I had my eyes closed, 363 00:19:43,375 --> 00:19:47,542 I would have thought I was listening to a white man. 364 00:19:50,542 --> 00:19:52,250 Poster boy, pinup boy. 365 00:19:54,834 --> 00:19:59,041 Handsome Ulric Cross, they've used us like cattle. 366 00:20:01,667 --> 00:20:03,834 Their men died and they called us, now we're here. 367 00:20:03,917 --> 00:20:06,208 You think they want us here? 368 00:20:09,166 --> 00:20:13,208 - Kofi, nobody tells me what to do, man, nobody. 369 00:20:15,917 --> 00:20:18,667 You need to lighten up, my friend. 370 00:20:20,166 --> 00:20:24,458 - Well, I will lighten up, but I won't whiten up. 371 00:20:24,542 --> 00:20:26,458 - Kofi's words hit home. 372 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,125 We were outcasts, rejects of the war. 373 00:20:31,208 --> 00:20:34,500 I loved the RAF, I decided to take my chances 374 00:20:34,583 --> 00:20:36,000 on a city street. 375 00:20:40,417 --> 00:20:43,917 (upbeat orchestral music) 376 00:20:45,709 --> 00:20:46,834 Give it to me a little more gentle. 377 00:20:46,917 --> 00:20:50,458 The BBC were just starting their Caribbean voices program. 378 00:20:50,542 --> 00:20:52,125 - It was a summer night, it was the kind of night 379 00:20:52,208 --> 00:20:54,792 that if you wasn't making love to a woman-- 380 00:20:54,875 --> 00:20:57,041 - [Ulric] Songs and stories 381 00:20:57,125 --> 00:20:59,542 to entertain the folks back home. 382 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:01,375 - Again, take it away. 383 00:21:01,458 --> 00:21:05,375 - It was something of a mystery why he was called Bogart. 384 00:21:05,458 --> 00:21:08,333 - An educated fellow like me could make a few shillings. 385 00:21:08,417 --> 00:21:09,166 And one more time. 386 00:21:09,250 --> 00:21:10,625 - One more time? 387 00:21:10,709 --> 00:21:12,250 - [Ulric] Reading stories and producing segments. 388 00:21:12,333 --> 00:21:15,667 We were hustling in the shadows of London. 389 00:21:15,750 --> 00:21:17,500 - [Kofi] Spring mumbling, "Get a job, 390 00:21:17,583 --> 00:21:18,834 "get a job, get a job." 391 00:21:18,917 --> 00:21:20,959 (men laughing) 392 00:21:21,041 --> 00:21:22,125 So what do we do about-- 393 00:21:22,208 --> 00:21:23,875 - [Ulric] The West Indian Students Union 394 00:21:23,959 --> 00:21:24,959 in Earl's Court was our hub. 395 00:21:25,041 --> 00:21:26,709 (overlapping chattering) 396 00:21:26,792 --> 00:21:28,500 Hey. - All right, man? 397 00:21:28,583 --> 00:21:30,041 - How's it going, man? - Good. 398 00:21:30,125 --> 00:21:31,542 - [Ulric] And none other than Pony was the warden. 399 00:21:31,625 --> 00:21:32,083 - Ulric Cross. 400 00:21:32,166 --> 00:21:33,792 - [Ulric] My friend. 401 00:21:33,875 --> 00:21:34,542 - Good to see you, my friend. 402 00:21:34,625 --> 00:21:36,083 (overlapping chattering) 403 00:21:36,166 --> 00:21:37,625 - [Ulric] We need to have some fun. 404 00:21:37,709 --> 00:21:40,041 - That's my boy, will you pour the man a drink, please? 405 00:21:40,125 --> 00:21:42,125 - [Bartender] Yes, sir. 406 00:21:42,208 --> 00:21:43,375 - [Ulric] It was a crossroads for artists, 407 00:21:43,458 --> 00:21:44,375 academics, and future leaders. 408 00:21:44,458 --> 00:21:46,542 - And you have a problem with the truth, 409 00:21:46,625 --> 00:21:47,959 you have a problem with the fact 410 00:21:48,041 --> 00:21:49,417 that you are a racist asshole. (overlapping chattering) 411 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:52,000 - The girlfriends that are going running before, yeah? 412 00:21:52,083 --> 00:21:53,375 Go catch her. 413 00:21:53,458 --> 00:21:55,375 - [Ulric] Pony was documenting the activities 414 00:21:55,458 --> 00:21:56,875 and planned to publish a book one day. 415 00:21:56,959 --> 00:22:00,750 (slow piano music) 416 00:22:06,333 --> 00:22:07,500 - Okay, Mum, let me just 417 00:22:10,333 --> 00:22:11,208 get this, 418 00:22:12,375 --> 00:22:12,417 shit, wait. 419 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:15,375 - You want me to move? 420 00:22:15,458 --> 00:22:16,500 - No, please. 421 00:22:16,583 --> 00:22:17,291 (camera beeps) 422 00:22:17,375 --> 00:22:18,917 Okay, that's good. 423 00:22:20,291 --> 00:22:22,834 So how did you meet my father? 424 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:28,917 - Oh, well, it's a long time ago. (laughs) 425 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,041 (slow piano music) 426 00:22:32,834 --> 00:22:36,500 I was a stranger in London, really. 427 00:22:36,583 --> 00:22:37,750 - Is that what you've been doing 428 00:22:37,834 --> 00:22:40,125 for the past couple years I've left you? 429 00:22:40,208 --> 00:22:42,166 - [Ann] So I moved to Earl's Court. 430 00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:43,583 - So what, I make a living, man. 431 00:22:43,667 --> 00:22:45,417 - [Kofi] You are just wearing the white man's jacket, 432 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:46,625 the white man's tie-- 433 00:22:46,709 --> 00:22:47,875 - Wait, wait, wait, wait-- 434 00:22:47,959 --> 00:22:48,709 - Sitting behind the white man's desk. 435 00:22:48,792 --> 00:22:51,250 - [Ann] And of course, Earl's Court, 436 00:22:51,333 --> 00:22:52,375 it was very cosmopolitan. 437 00:22:52,458 --> 00:22:53,834 - A black man, this is a black man's jacket? 438 00:22:53,917 --> 00:22:56,041 - It's Italian. 439 00:22:56,125 --> 00:22:57,041 - It's, oh, so the Italians are black? 440 00:22:57,125 --> 00:22:59,917 - Yes, you didn't know? 441 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,166 Your brain is too slow-- 442 00:23:01,250 --> 00:23:02,125 - I'm proud to say I didn't know. 443 00:23:02,208 --> 00:23:03,375 - No, no, you are too caught up 444 00:23:03,458 --> 00:23:04,458 in these big BBC people that duped you. 445 00:23:04,542 --> 00:23:09,458 - [Ann] I was there with a Canadian friend of mine, 446 00:23:09,542 --> 00:23:12,125 and afterwards, we discovered that when they came in, 447 00:23:12,208 --> 00:23:17,208 they decided which woman they were going to chat up. 448 00:23:17,542 --> 00:23:18,041 - Heads. 449 00:23:19,542 --> 00:23:23,792 Heads it is, oh, sweet, shall we, though? 450 00:23:24,834 --> 00:23:27,542 Good evening, ladies, hi, Ulric is the name. 451 00:23:27,625 --> 00:23:29,875 - That's how Ulric and I got together at that time. 452 00:23:29,959 --> 00:23:31,083 - [Ulric] May we join you? 453 00:23:31,166 --> 00:23:32,125 - All right, it must have been you. 454 00:23:32,208 --> 00:23:34,542 That's how it worked. (laughs) 455 00:23:34,625 --> 00:23:38,583 - Yeah, and after the war, I went back home to Trinidad, 456 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:39,834 and after that, I just-- 457 00:23:39,917 --> 00:23:41,333 - Oh, so your home is in Trinidad? 458 00:23:41,417 --> 00:23:42,375 - [Ulric] Yes, yes. 459 00:23:42,458 --> 00:23:44,583 - So what's Trinidad like? 460 00:23:46,542 --> 00:23:48,834 - [Ulric] Well, Trinidad was pretty much-- 461 00:23:48,917 --> 00:23:51,000 - How are you? 462 00:23:54,625 --> 00:23:55,333 - Idyllic. 463 00:23:55,417 --> 00:23:56,875 - Really? 464 00:23:56,959 --> 00:24:00,000 - Rustic, the sun is always shining. 465 00:24:00,083 --> 00:24:01,667 Have you met anybody from the West Indies ever? 466 00:24:01,750 --> 00:24:02,500 - [Ann] No. 467 00:24:02,583 --> 00:24:03,333 - No? 468 00:24:03,417 --> 00:24:05,667 - So why are you here? 469 00:24:05,750 --> 00:24:08,875 - That's a good question. (both laughing) 470 00:24:08,959 --> 00:24:10,583 - Well. 471 00:24:12,291 --> 00:24:14,834 My real passion is actually law. 472 00:24:14,917 --> 00:24:16,583 But I can't be a lawyer here in England, 473 00:24:16,667 --> 00:24:18,542 I can't be a lawyer back home in Trinidad. 474 00:24:18,625 --> 00:24:19,834 - So what's stopping you? 475 00:24:19,917 --> 00:24:22,667 - [Ulric] Well. 476 00:24:22,750 --> 00:24:24,542 - England is not a place to welcome. 477 00:24:24,625 --> 00:24:26,458 - She cut right through the noise 478 00:24:26,542 --> 00:24:27,625 and seemed to see me. 479 00:24:27,709 --> 00:24:31,667 Yes, I understand, but enough about me, what about you? 480 00:24:31,750 --> 00:24:34,917 - I trained as a nurse, again, wanting 481 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,709 to do something useful, to do something helpful, to-- 482 00:24:37,792 --> 00:24:39,125 - [Kofi] Drinks, you? 483 00:24:39,208 --> 00:24:40,792 - [Ulric] I'll have whatever you're having, man. 484 00:24:40,875 --> 00:24:44,375 - Okay, no problem, I won't be long. 485 00:24:44,458 --> 00:24:45,500 - I like to travel, you-- 486 00:24:45,583 --> 00:24:46,709 - [Ulric] You like to travel? 487 00:24:46,792 --> 00:24:47,583 - Yeah, you want me to take you with me? 488 00:24:47,667 --> 00:24:48,291 - Are you serious? 489 00:24:48,375 --> 00:24:49,125 - [Ann] Yeah, let's go. 490 00:24:49,208 --> 00:24:49,709 - Okay. (both laughing) 491 00:24:49,792 --> 00:24:51,875 - Help me leave England. 492 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:58,667 - [Nicola] And what did you think about him? 493 00:24:58,750 --> 00:25:02,917 - Not a lot, later on I got to know him better. 494 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,083 We saw quite a lot of each other, 495 00:25:05,166 --> 00:25:08,875 and it was my very first serious relationship. 496 00:25:10,625 --> 00:25:14,041 - Ulric, there's somebody else I want you to meet. 497 00:25:14,125 --> 00:25:16,000 - Okay, I'll be there in just a minute. 498 00:25:16,083 --> 00:25:19,125 So you're here every day? 499 00:25:19,208 --> 00:25:21,375 - I work in a cafe around the corner. 500 00:25:21,458 --> 00:25:24,875 Can I make you a cup of coffee? 501 00:25:26,375 --> 00:25:31,166 - I would love to have a cup of coffee, I take it black. 502 00:25:31,959 --> 00:25:32,750 One spoon of sugar. 503 00:25:32,834 --> 00:25:34,709 Whatever the reason, her entry 504 00:25:34,792 --> 00:25:37,959 into my life heralded a new beginning. 505 00:25:43,333 --> 00:25:45,125 Ah, gentlemen. 506 00:25:45,208 --> 00:25:47,333 - This is Mr. CLR James. 507 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:52,542 Mr. George Padmore. 508 00:25:52,625 --> 00:25:54,417 - [Ulric] I had heard about Padmore. 509 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:55,875 - George Padmore. 510 00:25:55,959 --> 00:25:59,458 - [Ulric] Kofi had spoken to me often about their work. 511 00:25:59,542 --> 00:26:00,959 - [George] Very nice to meet you-- 512 00:26:01,041 --> 00:26:01,458 - From what I understand, this is a table with giants. 513 00:26:01,542 --> 00:26:03,083 (group laughs) 514 00:26:03,166 --> 00:26:05,959 - Gentlemen, one for posterity. 515 00:26:06,041 --> 00:26:09,750 - Sure, sure, sure. (overlapping chattering) 516 00:26:09,834 --> 00:26:12,542 - All right, stationary, thank you, got it. 517 00:26:14,750 --> 00:26:14,792 Lovely. 518 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:25,000 - Offer you a glass of wine? 519 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:28,750 - Of course, of course, I wouldn't turn that down. 520 00:26:28,834 --> 00:26:30,166 - Welcome, welcome, welcome. 521 00:26:30,250 --> 00:26:31,625 - Yes, cheers. 522 00:26:31,709 --> 00:26:34,583 - So Mr. Cross, I can't wait to hear all about you. 523 00:26:34,667 --> 00:26:36,834 Kofi's been telling us a lot of different things, 524 00:26:36,917 --> 00:26:40,583 your line of work, you're working at the BBC, I understand. 525 00:26:40,667 --> 00:26:42,709 - I'm a talks producer at the BBC. 526 00:26:42,792 --> 00:26:46,542 - Do they understand you, or they just tolerate you? 527 00:26:46,625 --> 00:26:47,792 - [Ulric] Well. 528 00:26:49,250 --> 00:26:50,959 (Ulric chuckles) 529 00:26:51,041 --> 00:26:51,875 Well, at least-- 530 00:26:51,959 --> 00:26:53,750 - They understand his words, but not him. 531 00:26:53,834 --> 00:26:59,458 - I got to meet all the literary minds of the West Indies. 532 00:26:59,542 --> 00:27:01,083 - You are a lawyer, 533 00:27:03,291 --> 00:27:04,583 and we need good lawyers. 534 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,208 - [Ulric] Padmore told me that he was recruiting lawyers 535 00:27:09,291 --> 00:27:11,750 for a mission in West Africa. 536 00:27:13,583 --> 00:27:14,583 - For what exactly? 537 00:27:14,667 --> 00:27:16,834 It sounded like an incredible opportunity, 538 00:27:16,917 --> 00:27:19,083 but I had no desire to go to Africa. 539 00:27:19,166 --> 00:27:22,417 I thought that it is a backwater place full of turmoil. 540 00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,291 There was talk of independence, 541 00:27:24,375 --> 00:27:27,000 what role could I play there? 542 00:27:27,083 --> 00:27:28,834 Nevertheless, I was intrigued. 543 00:27:28,917 --> 00:27:31,250 - You see, Ghana was the first country 544 00:27:31,333 --> 00:27:35,792 to gain independence, and so there was this big shift. 545 00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:38,709 (crowd cheers) 546 00:27:43,917 --> 00:27:48,667 - [Ulric] Soon after, the BBC offered me a regular slot. 547 00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:52,041 That's how I came to interview CLR. 548 00:27:52,125 --> 00:27:54,667 I'm here in the studio with Mr. CLR James, 549 00:27:54,750 --> 00:27:57,583 the author of "Minty Alley" and "The Black Jacobins," 550 00:27:57,667 --> 00:27:59,792 and we are here this evening to talk 551 00:27:59,875 --> 00:28:02,125 about one of the hot topics of the day, 552 00:28:02,208 --> 00:28:05,583 the independence of Gold Coast, soon to be Ghana. 553 00:28:05,667 --> 00:28:08,166 CLR, why don't you tell us how you got involved? 554 00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:11,083 - Mr. Cross, to understand this moment in time, 555 00:28:11,166 --> 00:28:14,041 you need to take a wider view of history. 556 00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:19,834 In October, 1935, I heard that a man called George Padmore, 557 00:28:21,375 --> 00:28:24,291 the great communist, who had lived in Russia for a while, 558 00:28:24,375 --> 00:28:29,250 a teacher, a writer, was coming to England to give a talk. 559 00:28:30,166 --> 00:28:33,959 I arrive at this place in Grazing Road, 560 00:28:34,041 --> 00:28:38,041 and this entourage arrived, and there he is. 561 00:28:38,125 --> 00:28:39,208 - I think that's at the end. 562 00:28:39,291 --> 00:28:41,542 - Malcolm Nurse? 563 00:28:42,583 --> 00:28:43,875 - Mr. CLR James. 564 00:28:44,542 --> 00:28:47,291 Nello! (both laughing) 565 00:28:47,375 --> 00:28:49,417 - Malcolm Nurse? 566 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:51,333 - My school friend from Arouca, Malcolm Nurse. 567 00:28:51,417 --> 00:28:52,291 - You're always following me. 568 00:28:52,375 --> 00:28:53,625 - Mr. Padmore. 569 00:28:53,709 --> 00:28:54,792 - Yours truly. 570 00:28:54,875 --> 00:28:56,417 - Same person. 571 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:57,792 - Let's talk. 572 00:28:57,875 --> 00:29:01,792 - [Ulric] Malcolm Nurse, the name from my childhood. 573 00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:05,291 - [Pony] Look at the company he's keeping. 574 00:29:05,375 --> 00:29:06,750 - [Ulric] Pony was always a good source of gossip. 575 00:29:06,834 --> 00:29:08,458 - [Pony] All of these are revolutionaries. 576 00:29:08,542 --> 00:29:10,291 - [Ulric] A brilliant young Trinidadian, 577 00:29:10,375 --> 00:29:14,458 good family, married well, but he went astray. 578 00:29:14,542 --> 00:29:16,959 Padmore asked me to join his organization. 579 00:29:17,041 --> 00:29:20,667 - Really, as what, what's he offering you? 580 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,917 - [Ulric] There might be an opportunity in Africa, 581 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,208 that's why I called, I mean, you know everything. 582 00:29:26,291 --> 00:29:28,417 What do you know about it? 583 00:29:30,625 --> 00:29:31,834 - I don't know anything you don't know. 584 00:29:31,917 --> 00:29:34,667 But what I do know is that he went to university 585 00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:36,834 in the States, no, thank you. 586 00:29:36,917 --> 00:29:42,000 And by the time he left, he was persona non grata. 587 00:29:42,083 --> 00:29:44,667 A couple of stints in Russia, he came back all communist, 588 00:29:44,750 --> 00:29:49,000 and now he has that movement behind him. 589 00:29:49,083 --> 00:29:50,208 And you want to be careful, 590 00:29:50,291 --> 00:29:51,250 'cause nothing those guys like more than 591 00:29:51,333 --> 00:29:54,875 to brainwash critical young mans like yourself. 592 00:29:57,083 --> 00:29:59,875 Africa, nothing but Africans over there, man. 593 00:30:02,792 --> 00:30:06,417 You sure that's what you want, Mr. BBC producer? 594 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:08,542 - [Ulric] In the end, I was left with even more doubt. 595 00:30:08,625 --> 00:30:10,542 - What I'm trying to say-- 596 00:30:10,625 --> 00:30:12,041 - [Ulric] More questions. 597 00:30:12,125 --> 00:30:14,000 - I would ask around and explain. 598 00:30:16,417 --> 00:30:18,709 (bell rings) 599 00:30:18,792 --> 00:30:22,875 - [Ulric] Padmore invited me to his apartment for a meeting. 600 00:30:24,291 --> 00:30:25,291 - [Julia] Ulric. 601 00:30:25,375 --> 00:30:26,458 - Hello, my dear, how are you? 602 00:30:26,542 --> 00:30:27,208 - [Julia] We've been expecting you, welcome. 603 00:30:27,291 --> 00:30:30,166 - Why did you change your name? 604 00:30:37,125 --> 00:30:41,333 - I was born Malcolm Nurse, like you, in Trinidad. 605 00:30:47,542 --> 00:30:50,542 I got married to Julie Semper. 606 00:30:50,625 --> 00:30:52,917 - [Ulric] Mrs. Small's niece? 607 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,750 - When I left Trinidad to go to the United States, 608 00:30:56,834 --> 00:31:01,083 I became deeply involved with the Communist Party. 609 00:31:01,166 --> 00:31:05,500 I made a simple decision based on a simple equation, 610 00:31:06,500 --> 00:31:09,291 protect the family at all costs. 611 00:31:10,542 --> 00:31:13,834 The CIA, the MI6, the intelligence services, 612 00:31:13,917 --> 00:31:19,333 you have to understand that they would have found, 613 00:31:19,417 --> 00:31:22,875 and so I became George Padmore, but was it worth it? 614 00:31:26,875 --> 00:31:30,125 Kwame Nkrumah will be president, 615 00:31:30,208 --> 00:31:32,000 the first president of an African nation. 616 00:31:32,083 --> 00:31:35,625 We're looking for people who will follow through 617 00:31:35,709 --> 00:31:37,375 with these ideas. 618 00:31:37,458 --> 00:31:39,125 You need to ask yourself a question, 619 00:31:39,208 --> 00:31:41,333 what are you prepared to do? 620 00:31:41,417 --> 00:31:45,667 What part am I prepared to play in history? 621 00:31:45,750 --> 00:31:49,166 Building a movement is not easy, Mr. Cross. 622 00:31:54,750 --> 00:31:57,291 (slow drumming) 623 00:31:57,375 --> 00:31:58,667 - [Ulric] I felt like I was looking 624 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:02,083 at the world with new eyes and new purpose. 625 00:32:09,166 --> 00:32:10,333 (slow acoustic guitar music) 626 00:32:10,417 --> 00:32:13,583 I was seeing Ann, but I did not feel like 627 00:32:13,667 --> 00:32:16,834 I could share these thoughts with her. 628 00:32:18,542 --> 00:32:22,583 ♪ A dream might be heavy ♪ 629 00:32:22,667 --> 00:32:26,583 ♪ Heavy as lead ♪ 630 00:32:26,667 --> 00:32:30,750 ♪ You hear voices whisper ♪ 631 00:32:30,834 --> 00:32:33,667 ♪ Lay it down instead ♪ 632 00:32:33,750 --> 00:32:38,583 ♪ It'll give you no burden ♪ 633 00:32:38,667 --> 00:32:42,834 ♪ For them you can bear ♪ 634 00:32:42,917 --> 00:32:46,917 ♪ You might be frightened ♪ 635 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,291 ♪ To carry on from this ♪ 636 00:32:51,375 --> 00:32:54,709 ♪ That's all it is ♪ 637 00:32:54,792 --> 00:32:57,917 ♪ That's all it is ♪ 638 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:58,166 - I was torn. 639 00:33:03,750 --> 00:33:06,709 CLR, I need your help to understand. 640 00:33:06,792 --> 00:33:08,583 Where's all of this going? 641 00:33:08,667 --> 00:33:09,959 Would you mind explaining for the listeners, 642 00:33:10,041 --> 00:33:13,375 what's the strategy, what's the end result? 643 00:33:13,458 --> 00:33:18,208 - I'm coming to that, Pan-Africanism was a concept created 644 00:33:18,291 --> 00:33:21,959 from our nostalgic longing that something was missing, 645 00:33:23,834 --> 00:33:24,000 a black star. 646 00:33:26,709 --> 00:33:30,250 I am teaching at Lincoln College in Pennsylvania. 647 00:33:30,333 --> 00:33:33,458 I wrote to George, "I have found the person 648 00:33:33,542 --> 00:33:35,750 "who will execute our plan." 649 00:33:35,834 --> 00:33:40,750 One of my students was a young man called Kwame Nkrumah, 650 00:33:40,834 --> 00:33:44,792 a young African man, propelled by a singular drive. 651 00:33:44,875 --> 00:33:45,959 - He intends to-- 652 00:33:46,041 --> 00:33:47,458 - [CLR And George] Overthrow imperialism. 653 00:33:47,542 --> 00:33:49,834 - In the Gold Coast. - I see. 654 00:33:50,875 --> 00:33:53,667 - In April, 1945, Waterloo Station, 655 00:33:55,667 --> 00:33:57,917 a train arrives. 656 00:34:03,834 --> 00:34:05,208 It is the moment. 657 00:34:10,583 --> 00:34:12,417 Mr. Kwame Nkrumah. 658 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:13,583 - Mr. George Padmore. 659 00:34:13,667 --> 00:34:16,041 - [George] Welcome to London. 660 00:34:16,125 --> 00:34:18,291 - [CLR] Padmore had the strategy, 661 00:34:18,375 --> 00:34:19,667 and Nkrumah was the African star. 662 00:34:19,750 --> 00:34:22,458 - Take a seat, man. 663 00:34:22,542 --> 00:34:25,709 - The force on the ground to make it happen. 664 00:34:25,792 --> 00:34:28,583 The rest is history. Five months later, 665 00:34:28,667 --> 00:34:33,667 Manchester, England, we have the fifth Pan-African Congress. 666 00:34:35,250 --> 00:34:35,917 - [Ulric] Suddenly I was informed 667 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,125 that the program was canceled. 668 00:34:42,166 --> 00:34:44,291 - I'm sorry, Ulric, Mr. James. 669 00:34:44,375 --> 00:34:46,500 I'm sorry to have to cut the interview short. 670 00:34:46,583 --> 00:34:48,375 They said it was getting too political. 671 00:34:48,458 --> 00:34:49,583 - Political, BBC talks politics all the time-- 672 00:34:49,667 --> 00:34:52,583 - Yes, this is the BBC, 673 00:34:52,667 --> 00:34:53,583 the British Broadcasting Corporation. 674 00:34:53,667 --> 00:34:56,667 Thank you for coming. 675 00:34:56,750 --> 00:34:58,250 - Cold, boy, cold. 676 00:35:04,375 --> 00:35:04,417 Thank you. 677 00:35:08,583 --> 00:35:09,792 - [Ulric] I needed to know the end 678 00:35:09,875 --> 00:35:12,125 of the story, so I borrowed 679 00:35:14,542 --> 00:35:15,959 a tape recorder 680 00:35:18,125 --> 00:35:20,750 and headed to the pub. 681 00:35:20,834 --> 00:35:23,083 - They shut us down, man, that's what I've been trying 682 00:35:23,166 --> 00:35:26,625 to tell you, they'll stop at nothing 683 00:35:26,709 --> 00:35:28,917 to prevent us owning our own narrative. 684 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,333 - How about you continue where we left off? 685 00:35:32,417 --> 00:35:33,709 What happened next? 686 00:35:33,792 --> 00:35:34,875 - [CLR] Nkrumah. 687 00:35:34,959 --> 00:35:36,083 - Nkrumah. 688 00:35:36,166 --> 00:35:37,333 - You tell him, you tell. 689 00:35:37,417 --> 00:35:39,875 - Within five months of meeting him, 690 00:35:39,959 --> 00:35:42,625 we organized the fifth Pan-African Conference. 691 00:35:42,709 --> 00:35:43,542 - 1945. 692 00:35:44,792 --> 00:35:46,834 - Lack of places to stay, places to eat 693 00:35:46,917 --> 00:35:49,375 for the delegates, the color bar. 694 00:35:49,458 --> 00:35:50,667 What are we going to do? 695 00:35:50,750 --> 00:35:51,542 We couldn't have it in London. 696 00:35:51,625 --> 00:35:55,125 Then I had a letter from Ras Makkonnen, 697 00:35:56,375 --> 00:35:58,417 "I will find places for the delegates to stay, 698 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:01,333 "come up, we will organize everything for you, 699 00:36:01,417 --> 00:36:04,667 "and bring everyone to Manchester." 700 00:36:04,750 --> 00:36:07,291 We agree, we are in agreement. (overlapping chattering) 701 00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:08,875 World leaders are arriving at this conference. 702 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,375 Welcome to the cold Manchester. 703 00:36:15,959 --> 00:36:19,417 Thank you very much, Rass. (audience applauds) 704 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:22,583 300 years ago, the illegal trafficking 705 00:36:22,667 --> 00:36:26,583 of our people began, the gold, the diamonds 706 00:36:26,667 --> 00:36:29,583 that belong to each and every member of the African nations. 707 00:36:29,667 --> 00:36:32,083 There was an energy. 708 00:36:32,166 --> 00:36:36,500 - Now is the seed time, now are the hours of work, 709 00:36:36,583 --> 00:36:38,250 and tomorrow comes the harvest. 710 00:36:40,375 --> 00:36:43,000 - [George] The great W.E.B. Du Bois. 711 00:36:43,083 --> 00:36:45,583 - We are going to light the fire. 712 00:36:45,667 --> 00:36:49,333 Africa and the West Indies are going to live. 713 00:36:50,792 --> 00:36:52,417 - [CLR] Chaired by George Padmore. 714 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:53,500 - Mr. Kwame Nkrumah. (audience applauds) 715 00:36:53,583 --> 00:36:55,083 And Kwame Nkrumah. 716 00:36:56,959 --> 00:36:58,291 - [Presenter] Please. 717 00:36:58,375 --> 00:37:00,250 (applause drowns out speaker) 718 00:37:00,333 --> 00:37:02,458 The loyal subjects will be free. 719 00:37:02,542 --> 00:37:03,375 - [Audience Member] Bring it. 720 00:37:03,458 --> 00:37:05,500 - [Presenter] Will be free. 721 00:37:12,375 --> 00:37:14,458 - [Pony] Last call, last call. 722 00:37:14,542 --> 00:37:17,625 - Ah, there he is, the man himself. 723 00:37:17,709 --> 00:37:20,083 - I'm pretty sure you guys could use a last drink. 724 00:37:20,166 --> 00:37:22,625 - Mr. Macfarlane, do you still have those photographs 725 00:37:22,709 --> 00:37:23,625 you took in Manchester? 726 00:37:23,709 --> 00:37:25,750 - I do indeed. 727 00:37:25,834 --> 00:37:27,333 - We need more people like you. 728 00:37:27,417 --> 00:37:30,417 (slow ominous music) 729 00:37:49,333 --> 00:37:51,792 - [Interviewer] What do you consider the dangers 730 00:37:51,875 --> 00:37:53,583 of an increasing colored population? 731 00:37:53,667 --> 00:37:56,500 - In our opinion, the most important is the longterm one 732 00:37:56,583 --> 00:37:57,667 of mass interbreeding, we feel 733 00:37:57,750 --> 00:38:01,041 that you cannot have colored immigration on the scale-- 734 00:38:01,125 --> 00:38:02,792 - [Ulric] I saw England going to the dogs. 735 00:38:02,875 --> 00:38:03,875 - [Interviewee] While sooner or later, 736 00:38:03,959 --> 00:38:05,542 having mass interbreeding. 737 00:38:05,625 --> 00:38:09,500 (overlapping chattering) 738 00:38:09,583 --> 00:38:11,375 - [Ulric] Riots, racial tension. 739 00:38:13,417 --> 00:38:16,125 I definitely did not belong there. 740 00:38:17,208 --> 00:38:20,291 (slow orchestral music) 741 00:38:20,375 --> 00:38:22,291 - [Announcer] At Accra, a huge crowd cheers 742 00:38:22,375 --> 00:38:24,875 as Kwame Nkrumah leaves James Fort Prison-- 743 00:38:24,959 --> 00:38:26,166 - [Ulric] The world was changing. 744 00:38:26,250 --> 00:38:28,542 - [Announcer] On the eve of the inauguration. 745 00:38:28,625 --> 00:38:29,875 What now happens 746 00:38:29,959 --> 00:38:33,792 in the Gold Coast may influence all of West Africa. 747 00:38:35,458 --> 00:38:37,417 - Mr. Cross, I ask you a question. 748 00:38:42,625 --> 00:38:44,583 Have you made a decision? 749 00:38:45,792 --> 00:38:47,375 - [Ann] Good, I'm gonna hold you to it. 750 00:38:47,458 --> 00:38:48,750 - Good, I guess I'm warming up. 751 00:38:48,834 --> 00:38:49,834 - Yeah. 752 00:38:49,917 --> 00:38:51,834 - You just kissed me. 753 00:38:51,917 --> 00:38:53,458 - Yeah. 754 00:38:53,542 --> 00:38:54,250 - Again. 755 00:38:54,333 --> 00:38:55,208 - Yeah. 756 00:38:57,250 --> 00:38:58,458 - I can't say that I have family 757 00:38:58,542 --> 00:39:00,959 to leave behind, necessarily. 758 00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:07,083 I mean, my mother died when I was just 13, 759 00:39:07,166 --> 00:39:08,333 and not too long after that, 760 00:39:08,417 --> 00:39:10,542 my father abandoned all nine of us. 761 00:39:12,166 --> 00:39:14,125 My entire life seemed to change. 762 00:39:14,208 --> 00:39:15,125 - What? 763 00:39:19,250 --> 00:39:23,041 You're breaking up with me, this is a breakup? 764 00:39:24,250 --> 00:39:27,417 Well, say no, what the fuck, what is this? 765 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,500 Say something, Ulric, hey. 766 00:39:29,583 --> 00:39:30,667 - Just don't make a scene. 767 00:39:30,750 --> 00:39:32,125 - Don't make a scene? 768 00:39:32,208 --> 00:39:33,750 Does this mean anything to you? 769 00:39:33,834 --> 00:39:35,834 But you don't want me to make a scene? 770 00:39:35,917 --> 00:39:38,417 Was it fuck, was it a joke? 771 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:41,959 Tell me you love me, tell me you love me. 772 00:39:42,041 --> 00:39:43,834 You're walking away from me, you walk away from me, 773 00:39:43,917 --> 00:39:44,667 you'll never see me again. 774 00:39:44,750 --> 00:39:45,542 - Listen, don't-- 775 00:39:45,625 --> 00:39:48,250 - Don't point your finger at me. 776 00:39:48,792 --> 00:39:50,458 Talk to me. 777 00:39:51,875 --> 00:39:56,750 Stay, stay, you're a coward. (slow violin music) 778 00:40:08,625 --> 00:40:11,417 (dramatic orchestral music) 779 00:40:15,667 --> 00:40:19,417 - For the second time, I left everything I knew behind. 780 00:40:25,041 --> 00:40:30,041 I took a risk on a dream, I didn't know where it would land. 781 00:40:30,667 --> 00:40:33,208 (upbeat music) 782 00:40:39,834 --> 00:40:43,500 (singing in foreign language) 783 00:40:43,583 --> 00:40:44,250 What's this? 784 00:40:44,333 --> 00:40:47,875 (speaking in foreign language) 785 00:40:47,959 --> 00:40:49,458 - [PK] Does it sound similar? 786 00:40:49,542 --> 00:40:50,250 - No, no, no. 787 00:40:50,333 --> 00:40:51,458 - At all. 788 00:40:51,542 --> 00:40:52,834 - Not at all, not at all, not at all. 789 00:40:52,917 --> 00:40:54,667 We speak English, plain and simple. 790 00:40:54,750 --> 00:40:56,542 (PK laughs) 791 00:40:56,625 --> 00:40:59,500 - [PK] So this is Ghana, man, yes. 792 00:40:59,583 --> 00:41:01,166 - Accra Central. 793 00:41:02,291 --> 00:41:03,125 The women are beautiful. 794 00:41:03,208 --> 00:41:05,542 - Welcome to Ghana, my friend. 795 00:41:05,625 --> 00:41:06,917 - A lovely place. 796 00:41:09,250 --> 00:41:12,291 (speaking in foreign language) 797 00:41:12,375 --> 00:41:14,667 PK Asante, I take it, by that name, 798 00:41:14,750 --> 00:41:15,959 you're a member of the Ashanti tribe, 799 00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:17,375 and you've been doing some reading. 800 00:41:17,458 --> 00:41:21,625 - So George has told us a lot about you. 801 00:41:23,208 --> 00:41:24,458 - Well, I should hope so. 802 00:41:24,542 --> 00:41:28,500 He actually gave me a letter to give to you. 803 00:41:28,583 --> 00:41:30,291 (speaking in foreign language) 804 00:41:30,375 --> 00:41:31,417 - [Kwame] And what do you think you can bring 805 00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:33,208 to this new chapter? 806 00:41:33,291 --> 00:41:34,458 - Well, I bring my service. 807 00:41:34,542 --> 00:41:37,750 I bring whatever experience I've had. 808 00:41:37,834 --> 00:41:41,792 I was once a soldier, I've been a producer. 809 00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:44,417 - He says here you are a lawyer, what are you doing working 810 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:47,125 for the British Broadcasting Corporation? 811 00:41:47,208 --> 00:41:51,333 - Well, Mr. President, to be a lawyer in England, 812 00:41:52,250 --> 00:41:53,917 you have to marry a solicitor's daughter, 813 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,417 or at least so it seems. (group laughs) 814 00:41:56,500 --> 00:41:57,542 It's that hard. 815 00:42:01,166 --> 00:42:02,000 Well, yeah. 816 00:42:02,083 --> 00:42:03,583 - It's just a little joke. 817 00:42:03,667 --> 00:42:04,792 Well, maybe you should come here and be a lawyer, huh? 818 00:42:04,875 --> 00:42:08,500 Are you ready to embark on this journey together with us? 819 00:42:08,583 --> 00:42:08,625 - Yes, sir. 820 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,542 - That's my president, he's called 821 00:42:12,625 --> 00:42:16,291 (speaking in foreign language) for "the savior." 822 00:42:16,375 --> 00:42:19,041 That over there, that's where Kwame plans 823 00:42:19,125 --> 00:42:20,458 to build the teaching hospital. 824 00:42:20,542 --> 00:42:23,166 He's giving free healthcare, free education. 825 00:42:23,250 --> 00:42:25,125 So he plans to develop the film industry, 826 00:42:25,208 --> 00:42:27,792 to empower the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. 827 00:42:27,875 --> 00:42:29,333 It's a great time to be Ghanaian, 828 00:42:29,417 --> 00:42:33,125 my friend, it is a better time to be African. 829 00:42:33,208 --> 00:42:33,875 - Oh, shit. 830 00:42:33,959 --> 00:42:36,542 - Sorry about that, my friend. 831 00:42:36,625 --> 00:42:38,959 He plans to improve the roads, as well. 832 00:42:39,041 --> 00:42:40,291 (Ulric laughs) 833 00:42:40,375 --> 00:42:44,166 But I'm gonna take you to eat fufu. 834 00:42:47,375 --> 00:42:49,333 - [Ulric] My word, what is it? 835 00:42:49,417 --> 00:42:52,125 - [PK] Intestine, that's the skin, and that's the meat. 836 00:42:52,208 --> 00:42:53,125 - I see. 837 00:42:53,750 --> 00:42:55,750 - [PK] Wash your hands. 838 00:42:55,834 --> 00:42:58,834 - [Ulric] But tell me something, PK, you're sending me out 839 00:42:58,917 --> 00:43:00,000 to Kumasi, yeah? 840 00:43:00,083 --> 00:43:01,583 - Yeah, don't worry about that, my friend. 841 00:43:01,667 --> 00:43:03,750 You'll be met on arrival by the original secretary. 842 00:43:03,834 --> 00:43:07,083 You will have a house, a car, a driver, and a butler. 843 00:43:07,166 --> 00:43:09,375 - [Ulric] Okay. 844 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:12,709 - [PK] Swallow. 845 00:43:12,792 --> 00:43:15,375 (Ulric coughs) 846 00:43:16,333 --> 00:43:20,500 - That's quite tasty, it's quite wonderful. 847 00:43:20,583 --> 00:43:22,250 - Yeah. - Fantastic. 848 00:43:23,959 --> 00:43:27,250 - Taste that akpeteshie, drink it down. 849 00:43:33,917 --> 00:43:37,625 Ulric, (laughs) Ulric, Ulric. 850 00:43:41,583 --> 00:43:42,959 You okay? 851 00:43:43,041 --> 00:43:45,625 (Ulric coughs) 852 00:43:49,208 --> 00:43:50,291 - [Ulric] Which way is west? 853 00:43:50,375 --> 00:43:51,667 - [PK] That way. 854 00:43:53,208 --> 00:43:57,041 - If you go straight out across the ocean that way, 855 00:43:57,125 --> 00:43:58,542 that's where you will find Trinidad. 856 00:43:58,625 --> 00:43:59,333 - [PK] Oh, yeah? 857 00:43:59,417 --> 00:44:00,417 - Yes, yes, 858 00:44:03,959 --> 00:44:04,625 this same ocean. 859 00:44:04,709 --> 00:44:06,000 - The same ocean. 860 00:44:09,542 --> 00:44:13,041 So it's safe to say, "Welcome back home." 861 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:18,667 - [Announcer] A new order is coming into being, 862 00:44:18,750 --> 00:44:21,083 and an old order is passing away. 863 00:44:21,166 --> 00:44:26,000 The universe itself is on the side of freedom and justice. 864 00:44:27,792 --> 00:44:32,834 (upbeat music) (crowd cheering) 865 00:44:34,166 --> 00:44:35,250 - I think after everything I've ever heard 866 00:44:35,333 --> 00:44:37,417 or learned about Africa, it's all a lie. 867 00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:38,917 - [PK] What did you expect? 868 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,709 - We were told that Africans swing on trees, like monkeys. 869 00:44:45,583 --> 00:44:48,750 I come here now and I see a new world. 870 00:44:50,709 --> 00:44:53,834 New world, and I'm here to be part of it. 871 00:44:53,917 --> 00:44:56,250 - [Announcer] Well, Dr. Nkrumah may not have been 872 00:44:56,333 --> 00:44:59,291 to Ghana's independence, this is a day of fulfillment, 873 00:44:59,375 --> 00:45:02,041 the longing to be free, the need to be free. 874 00:45:02,125 --> 00:45:04,542 These are part of the rightful heritage of man, 875 00:45:04,625 --> 00:45:07,583 a heritage denied to colonial Africa until now. 876 00:45:07,667 --> 00:45:11,875 (upbeat music) (crowd cheering) 877 00:45:15,875 --> 00:45:19,625 ♪ Ghana, you now have freedom ♪ 878 00:45:19,709 --> 00:45:23,375 ♪ Ghana, land of freedom ♪ 879 00:45:23,458 --> 00:45:27,625 ♪ Toils of the brave and ♪ the sweat of their labors ♪ 880 00:45:27,709 --> 00:45:31,709 ♪ Toils of the brave which ♪ have brought results ♪ 881 00:45:34,083 --> 00:45:36,625 (crowd cheers) 882 00:45:41,208 --> 00:45:42,125 - The battle is over. 883 00:45:42,208 --> 00:45:44,792 (crowd cheers) 884 00:45:48,667 --> 00:45:52,125 And thus, Ghana, your beloved country, 885 00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:52,709 is free forever. 886 00:45:55,250 --> 00:45:58,417 (background noise drowns out speaker) 887 00:45:58,500 --> 00:46:00,417 That from now on, 888 00:46:00,500 --> 00:46:03,458 we must change our attitudes, our minds, 889 00:46:03,542 --> 00:46:06,291 we must realize that we are no longer colonial, 890 00:46:06,375 --> 00:46:09,208 but are free and independent people. 891 00:46:09,291 --> 00:46:11,917 (crowd cheers) 892 00:46:20,417 --> 00:46:22,500 (upbeat drumming) 893 00:46:22,583 --> 00:46:26,125 (upbeat orchestral music) 894 00:46:33,125 --> 00:46:35,959 (slow brass music) 895 00:46:42,959 --> 00:46:46,542 ♪ Ghana, Ghana is the name, Ghana ♪ 896 00:46:46,625 --> 00:46:47,667 ♪ We wish to proclaim ♪ 897 00:46:47,750 --> 00:46:50,709 ♪ We will be jolly, merry, and gay ♪ 898 00:46:50,792 --> 00:46:55,500 ♪ The sixth of March, Independence Day ♪ 899 00:47:06,375 --> 00:47:09,125 - [Nicola] Who is Ulric Cross? 900 00:47:09,208 --> 00:47:12,917 My father's an enigma, I'm pulling together the pieces 901 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,709 of his life from photographs, memories, half memories. 902 00:47:18,583 --> 00:47:21,208 There's so much that I don't know, 903 00:47:21,291 --> 00:47:25,458 can't know, will never know, so I have to imagine. 904 00:47:28,083 --> 00:47:32,750 - "It's a great time to be Ghanaian," as PK said. 905 00:47:32,834 --> 00:47:35,250 This land is full of resources, 906 00:47:35,333 --> 00:47:38,041 gold, diamonds, bauxite, beautiful country. 907 00:47:42,625 --> 00:47:44,667 My new job is Crown Consult, 908 00:47:44,750 --> 00:47:48,458 Solicitor General's Office, Kumasi. 909 00:47:48,542 --> 00:47:50,458 - Hannah, find gift in the. (speaking in foreign language) 910 00:47:50,542 --> 00:47:52,417 - [Ulric] I can't wait to get started. 911 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,917 (speaking in foreign language) 912 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:59,583 - It's our welcome gift, so we have something for you 913 00:48:00,542 --> 00:48:02,792 from the Asantehene, Opoku Ware. 914 00:48:02,875 --> 00:48:04,291 He welcome you to the office. 915 00:48:04,375 --> 00:48:05,458 - Thank you. 916 00:48:06,583 --> 00:48:08,125 - From the Asantehene? 917 00:48:08,208 --> 00:48:09,959 I'm sure I'll enjoy drinking it for later. 918 00:48:10,041 --> 00:48:12,458 - Oh, but my friend, and that's how they always welcome you 919 00:48:12,542 --> 00:48:13,709 in this country, by do you know, 920 00:48:13,792 --> 00:48:14,458 they always expect something from you. 921 00:48:14,542 --> 00:48:16,792 (slow kalimba music) 922 00:48:16,875 --> 00:48:21,667 There are powers who don't want us to succeed. 923 00:48:29,125 --> 00:48:31,208 We have to fight those powers, 924 00:48:31,291 --> 00:48:33,625 change the laws, build the country. 925 00:48:33,709 --> 00:48:37,458 Former law, our colonial law, 926 00:48:37,542 --> 00:48:42,625 we need to change the system and give rights to everyone. 927 00:48:43,667 --> 00:48:46,959 Make sure everyone is equal in this new country. 928 00:48:56,875 --> 00:48:59,917 - One of my first cases was a land dispute 929 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,583 between the Ashanti and the government. 930 00:49:02,667 --> 00:49:05,917 (speaking in foreign language) 931 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,250 The Ashanti king owns the land, and the government plans 932 00:49:09,333 --> 00:49:13,333 to nationalize the foreign-owned gold mines that lease it. 933 00:49:13,417 --> 00:49:17,291 (speaking in foreign language) 934 00:49:18,875 --> 00:49:20,625 Due to the sensitive nature of the land ownership question 935 00:49:20,709 --> 00:49:23,166 and the importance of the Asantehene, 936 00:49:23,250 --> 00:49:26,834 we decided that a royal visit would be more appropriate. 937 00:49:26,917 --> 00:49:28,417 (speaking in foreign language) 938 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:30,583 What are they saying exactly? 939 00:49:30,667 --> 00:49:31,583 - They're just fucking-- 940 00:49:31,667 --> 00:49:32,458 - What are they saying? 941 00:49:32,542 --> 00:49:33,667 (PK mumbles) 942 00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:37,792 - Fucking assholes, he's not gonna handle it, (mumbles). 943 00:49:37,875 --> 00:49:40,959 (speaking in foreign language) 944 00:49:47,583 --> 00:49:51,375 (speaking in foreign language) 945 00:49:54,291 --> 00:49:58,125 (speaking in foreign language) 946 00:50:09,041 --> 00:50:10,750 - Gentlemen, this doesn't seem to be going quite well. 947 00:50:10,834 --> 00:50:12,875 Listen, we have an opportunity here, 948 00:50:12,959 --> 00:50:15,250 and I believe it's a very, very unique 949 00:50:15,333 --> 00:50:17,625 and wonderful opportunity to benefit the entirety 950 00:50:17,709 --> 00:50:19,291 of the Ghanaian nation, and that would mean, 951 00:50:19,375 --> 00:50:20,834 of course, all tribes, including the Ashanti. 952 00:50:20,917 --> 00:50:22,750 Yes, now what Mr. Nkrumah is trying 953 00:50:22,834 --> 00:50:25,583 to do is nationalize all the gold, 954 00:50:25,667 --> 00:50:27,500 and in this way, we can benefit everyone. 955 00:50:27,583 --> 00:50:29,083 Now, it's strength in numbers. 956 00:50:29,166 --> 00:50:32,000 It will mean that the Ashanti, Asantehene and the Ghanaians 957 00:50:32,083 --> 00:50:34,542 and all the other tribes-- - The Ghanaians, the, 958 00:50:34,625 --> 00:50:36,375 exactly. - Everyone can benefit. 959 00:50:36,458 --> 00:50:37,959 - It's for the benefit of Ghana. 960 00:50:38,041 --> 00:50:40,625 - Listen, don't you people want to grow? 961 00:50:40,709 --> 00:50:42,333 I mean, we have the opportunity here 962 00:50:42,417 --> 00:50:43,917 to make sure that everyone can benefit. 963 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,959 It's a large number of people, no? 964 00:50:50,333 --> 00:50:53,417 We can all look after each other, yes? 965 00:50:55,875 --> 00:50:56,667 Yes? 966 00:50:57,375 --> 00:50:59,000 (speaking in foreign language) 967 00:50:59,083 --> 00:51:00,792 What's he-- (speaking in foreign language) 968 00:51:00,875 --> 00:51:01,959 - He doesn't like the tone of your voice. 969 00:51:02,041 --> 00:51:06,125 (Opoku coughs) (slow acoustic guitar music) 970 00:51:07,792 --> 00:51:10,166 (speaking in foreign language) 971 00:51:10,250 --> 00:51:12,959 - [Ulric] The visit ended in failure. 972 00:51:13,041 --> 00:51:13,834 My words found deaf ears. 973 00:51:13,917 --> 00:51:18,709 (speaking in foreign language) 974 00:51:20,208 --> 00:51:22,834 It was clear that the Ashanti king was not interested 975 00:51:22,917 --> 00:51:24,458 in working with the new government. 976 00:51:24,542 --> 00:51:27,458 ♪ Everything he touched turned to dust ♪ 977 00:51:27,542 --> 00:51:28,667 (speaking in foreign language) 978 00:51:28,750 --> 00:51:30,583 Asantehene, Asantehene. (overlapping chattering) 979 00:51:30,667 --> 00:51:31,667 - Hey. (speaking in foreign language) 980 00:51:31,750 --> 00:51:34,583 - Oh, all right, very sorry, very sorry, Asantehene-- 981 00:51:34,667 --> 00:51:37,208 - You don't address national TV like that. 982 00:51:37,291 --> 00:51:38,458 I will handle it. 983 00:51:38,542 --> 00:51:42,166 ♪ They said, "Sun man, ♪ take me to heaven" ♪ 984 00:51:42,250 --> 00:51:43,834 - The Asantehene is in business 985 00:51:43,917 --> 00:51:48,041 with the foreign corporations who, in turn, 986 00:51:48,125 --> 00:51:51,166 line his pockets to make it worth his while. 987 00:51:51,250 --> 00:51:54,750 Where there is gold, the people are poor. 988 00:51:55,709 --> 00:51:58,125 The status quo remains the same. 989 00:52:04,250 --> 00:52:05,458 - [Hannah] Here. 990 00:52:07,750 --> 00:52:09,375 - What's your name? 991 00:52:11,125 --> 00:52:12,000 - Hannah. 992 00:52:14,125 --> 00:52:15,166 - Thank you, I'm Ulric. 993 00:52:17,458 --> 00:52:18,500 - Yes, sir. 994 00:52:19,667 --> 00:52:22,375 - No, not sir, just Ulric. 995 00:52:22,458 --> 00:52:23,500 - Yes, sir. 996 00:52:26,834 --> 00:52:29,959 (slow orchestral music) 997 00:52:30,041 --> 00:52:32,917 - [Ulric] It had been this way since slavery. 998 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,542 On Nkrumah's direction, we decided 999 00:52:35,625 --> 00:52:38,667 to go straight to the mining companies. 1000 00:52:38,750 --> 00:52:41,417 As my father always said, 1001 00:52:41,500 --> 00:52:44,375 "Those that cannot hear will feel." 1002 00:52:44,458 --> 00:52:46,917 To General Sir Edward Spears, 1003 00:52:48,959 --> 00:52:51,542 the chairman of Ashanti Goldmines Corporation, 1004 00:52:51,625 --> 00:52:52,667 consider this your formal notice 1005 00:52:52,750 --> 00:52:56,542 that you will now owe taxes to the Ghanaian government 1006 00:52:56,625 --> 00:52:58,959 for every ounce of gold mined by your company 1007 00:52:59,041 --> 00:53:01,959 on Ghanaian soil, yours sincerely, 1008 00:53:02,041 --> 00:53:05,959 Philip Louis Ulric Cross, Senior Crown Attorney. 1009 00:53:09,834 --> 00:53:13,208 Nkrumah appointed me, 1010 00:53:13,291 --> 00:53:17,375 so I don't understand how the Asantehene can have the right 1011 00:53:18,917 --> 00:53:20,792 to get rid of me. 1012 00:53:20,875 --> 00:53:24,709 - I'm so sorry, although Kumasi is part of Ghana, 1013 00:53:24,792 --> 00:53:27,208 it has its own rules and regulations, 1014 00:53:27,291 --> 00:53:30,458 and everything falls under the Asantehene. 1015 00:53:30,542 --> 00:53:33,834 - My friend, you can't imagine the type of power they have, 1016 00:53:33,917 --> 00:53:37,917 and the type of power they're trying to protect. 1017 00:53:39,709 --> 00:53:42,834 - [Woman] We're gonna really miss you. 1018 00:53:46,709 --> 00:53:48,458 - [Ulric] I'm discovering that Africa is every bit 1019 00:53:48,542 --> 00:53:51,959 as tribal and exclusive as Europe, 1020 00:53:52,041 --> 00:53:56,041 but I am still, after all, that brown-skinned island boy 1021 00:53:56,125 --> 00:54:00,041 from Belmont, orphaned, an outsider. 1022 00:54:02,709 --> 00:54:04,083 And I miss you. 1023 00:54:04,166 --> 00:54:06,959 - [Ann] When I knew that Ulric was going to Ghana 1024 00:54:07,041 --> 00:54:09,917 and that I could not go with him. 1025 00:54:10,625 --> 00:54:12,542 - How did that make you feel? 1026 00:54:12,625 --> 00:54:13,917 - Devastated at the time, and I said, 1027 00:54:14,041 --> 00:54:16,000 "Ann, you've got to something, 1028 00:54:16,083 --> 00:54:17,000 "not lay around here with a broken heart. 1029 00:54:17,083 --> 00:54:20,750 "Get on and do something." 1030 00:54:20,834 --> 00:54:24,333 So I applied to something called Universal Aunts, 1031 00:54:24,417 --> 00:54:26,959 and they provide carers, 1032 00:54:27,041 --> 00:54:29,208 and so I got a job going to Venezuela. 1033 00:54:29,291 --> 00:54:30,333 ♪ Mr. Sun man, take me ♪ 1034 00:54:30,417 --> 00:54:34,709 - [Ulric] Dear Anne, I write to you today full 1035 00:54:34,792 --> 00:54:38,208 of remorse and sadness for our last meeting. 1036 00:54:38,291 --> 00:54:42,208 I'm not sure if you've been receiving my letters. 1037 00:54:42,291 --> 00:54:45,166 I miss talking to you, I long to tell you 1038 00:54:45,250 --> 00:54:48,250 about the extraordinary journey that I am on. 1039 00:54:50,041 --> 00:54:53,500 (overlapping chattering) 1040 00:54:53,583 --> 00:54:55,291 - To first Ghana Independence. 1041 00:54:55,375 --> 00:54:56,542 - Indeed. 1042 00:54:56,625 --> 00:54:58,875 - To friendship, as well. - Yeah. 1043 00:55:00,125 --> 00:55:02,625 (horn honks) (slow acoustic guitar music) 1044 00:55:02,709 --> 00:55:04,000 - This place is nothing like 1045 00:55:04,083 --> 00:55:06,792 what I thought it would be like. 1046 00:55:07,750 --> 00:55:09,500 - Is that good or bad? 1047 00:55:09,583 --> 00:55:11,083 - Well, it's good. 1048 00:55:13,125 --> 00:55:14,375 And perhaps bad, as well. 1049 00:55:18,750 --> 00:55:21,250 - This is Ghana's African Affairs Center. 1050 00:55:21,333 --> 00:55:23,750 - [PK] All right, this is it, this is the central hub. 1051 00:55:23,834 --> 00:55:26,542 (overlapping chattering) 1052 00:55:26,625 --> 00:55:28,375 This is where the research is done, 1053 00:55:28,458 --> 00:55:29,625 this is where the reports are written. 1054 00:55:29,709 --> 00:55:31,166 This is where the speeches are written. 1055 00:55:31,250 --> 00:55:33,667 - The African Affairs Bureau was established two years ago 1056 00:55:33,750 --> 00:55:35,750 by George Padmore. 1057 00:55:35,834 --> 00:55:37,250 - Thank you very much. - George! 1058 00:55:37,333 --> 00:55:38,000 - [Chet] And he might promote his ideas 1059 00:55:38,083 --> 00:55:40,625 for Pan-African Federation. 1060 00:55:40,709 --> 00:55:42,166 - Thanks, bye bye. 1061 00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:45,417 Ulric, come, come, come. 1062 00:55:45,500 --> 00:55:46,667 How are you, all done? 1063 00:55:46,750 --> 00:55:49,125 Ulric, good to see you, as you can see, 1064 00:55:49,208 --> 00:55:52,792 we're starting, we're at the beginning, again. 1065 00:55:52,875 --> 00:55:54,750 We're trying to put together the agenda. 1066 00:55:54,834 --> 00:55:58,166 (slow music) 1067 00:55:59,208 --> 00:56:02,291 The All-African Peoples' Congress. 1068 00:56:02,375 --> 00:56:02,834 (overlapping chattering) 1069 00:56:02,917 --> 00:56:05,000 - You're very busy. 1070 00:56:05,083 --> 00:56:07,959 - Oh, well, well, this is the guest list, 1071 00:56:08,041 --> 00:56:10,500 the beginnings of a guest list. 1072 00:56:10,583 --> 00:56:15,291 Patrice Lumumba will be attending the conference. 1073 00:56:15,375 --> 00:56:19,166 Have we heard back from Mondlane, Mondlane? 1074 00:56:20,875 --> 00:56:23,959 Please contact his office in Mozambique. 1075 00:56:24,041 --> 00:56:26,458 Cameroon, Ahmadhou, have we heard back from him? 1076 00:56:26,542 --> 00:56:29,875 We need to know if he's coming, leave it to me. 1077 00:56:29,959 --> 00:56:32,333 - What I'll also need to discuss is how I can be 1078 00:56:32,417 --> 00:56:33,125 of service to you. 1079 00:56:33,208 --> 00:56:34,291 - We need you now. 1080 00:56:34,375 --> 00:56:35,417 - [Ulric] Yes? 1081 00:56:35,500 --> 00:56:38,959 - It's good to see you, Ulric, we need help. 1082 00:56:39,041 --> 00:56:40,875 - Yes. (slow music) 1083 00:56:40,959 --> 00:56:43,333 - We are responsible 1084 00:56:43,417 --> 00:56:47,792 for putting together The All-African Peoples' Conference, 1085 00:56:47,875 --> 00:56:48,959 first time in Africa. 1086 00:56:49,041 --> 00:56:51,125 - [Ann] Dear Ulric, thank you for sharing 1087 00:56:51,208 --> 00:56:55,917 with me your journeys and what's been going on, and-- 1088 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,375 - Here's what we have in front of us right at the moment. 1089 00:56:58,458 --> 00:57:01,583 Nkrumah needs me to plan a draft-- 1090 00:57:01,667 --> 00:57:04,750 - [Ann] I can indeed tell and well imagine how new 1091 00:57:04,834 --> 00:57:06,583 and stressful it all is for you. 1092 00:57:06,667 --> 00:57:09,750 - That's the first point, what do you think? 1093 00:57:09,834 --> 00:57:12,750 - This congress is key to that movement. 1094 00:57:12,834 --> 00:57:16,458 - 'Cause we need to collaborate on this to make it work. 1095 00:57:16,542 --> 00:57:17,834 - [Ann] But try to remember 1096 00:57:17,917 --> 00:57:20,333 what an important contribution you're making, 1097 00:57:20,417 --> 00:57:24,083 that you can make, only you, Ulric, can make. 1098 00:57:25,583 --> 00:57:27,083 I wish I was with you. 1099 00:57:27,166 --> 00:57:29,625 - So please, try your hardest. 1100 00:57:29,709 --> 00:57:33,583 Anyone with any difficulties, let me hear them now. 1101 00:57:33,667 --> 00:57:37,291 - [Ulric] Dear Anne, I was overjoyed to hear from you. 1102 00:57:37,375 --> 00:57:39,083 Love, your Ulric. 1103 00:57:39,166 --> 00:57:42,542 - Sure to come a constantly growing exhortation 1104 00:57:42,625 --> 00:57:43,208 to other peoples and territories 1105 00:57:43,291 --> 00:57:46,458 to follow the lead of Ghana. 1106 00:57:46,542 --> 00:57:49,291 - Morning gentlemen, esteemed leaders, 1107 00:57:49,375 --> 00:57:52,208 I've been asked to come to you today 1108 00:57:52,291 --> 00:57:54,166 by Mr. Padmore and Mr.-- 1109 00:57:54,250 --> 00:57:56,917 - Mr. President, Kwame Nkrumah. 1110 00:57:57,667 --> 00:57:59,667 - To present a draft constitution 1111 00:58:01,458 --> 00:58:04,250 for the United States of Africa. 1112 00:58:07,917 --> 00:58:11,041 This continent is very rich, that's the reason why, 1113 00:58:11,125 --> 00:58:13,542 of course, the imperialists have been bleeding it dry 1114 00:58:13,625 --> 00:58:16,041 for the past few centuries. 1115 00:58:16,125 --> 00:58:17,834 - We do not want any 1116 00:58:18,166 --> 00:58:19,625 European 1117 00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:23,250 hold over us, we want them gone. 1118 00:58:24,875 --> 00:58:27,750 - Well, we know why the CIA, 1119 00:58:27,834 --> 00:58:29,417 the imperialist capitalist are opposing us, 1120 00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:32,166 because we are succeeding in the way 1121 00:58:32,250 --> 00:58:36,041 we have achieved it in Ghana. 1122 00:58:36,125 --> 00:58:38,917 - I think it is now, this is it. 1123 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:42,875 - I want to know that we are all on the same page. 1124 00:58:42,959 --> 00:58:47,250 Our vision has to be united, so let's begin. 1125 00:58:47,333 --> 00:58:50,208 - Firstly, we will serve all 1126 00:58:50,291 --> 00:58:52,583 of the interests of all the people of Africa, 1127 00:58:52,667 --> 00:58:55,417 regardless of nationality, tribe, class. 1128 00:58:55,500 --> 00:58:56,750 Any feedback on that? 1129 00:58:56,834 --> 00:59:00,166 - If we cannot control the tribal agenda, 1130 00:59:00,250 --> 00:59:02,750 we have no opportunity 1131 00:59:02,834 --> 00:59:06,125 of making the United States of Africa exist. 1132 00:59:06,208 --> 00:59:10,375 We must go back to our several different countries 1133 00:59:10,458 --> 00:59:13,333 and ensure that the people take responsibility 1134 00:59:13,417 --> 00:59:17,458 in the sense of voting for your own government. 1135 00:59:17,542 --> 00:59:18,792 - Well, that's actually one of the points, as well. 1136 00:59:18,875 --> 00:59:22,792 We are going to need to support all independence movements. 1137 00:59:22,875 --> 00:59:25,500 - This is the time, we've gotten to a point 1138 00:59:25,583 --> 00:59:29,166 where it's useless, we have been attrited 1139 00:59:29,250 --> 00:59:32,625 from our positions as owners of this land. 1140 00:59:34,417 --> 00:59:37,375 If force is needed to be applied, 1141 00:59:37,458 --> 00:59:39,291 then that is the way we should go. 1142 00:59:39,375 --> 00:59:41,000 - There should be a way for every country 1143 00:59:41,083 --> 00:59:42,083 to attend these meetings. 1144 00:59:42,166 --> 00:59:45,625 - We need to get them out, we need to get them out. 1145 00:59:45,709 --> 00:59:50,291 - Call me impatient, but I think it's ovedue. 1146 00:59:50,375 --> 00:59:53,875 - No force, we don't want to be like Russia 1147 00:59:55,083 --> 00:59:57,625 or the United States of America. 1148 00:59:58,208 --> 01:00:01,208 Focus and strategy. 1149 01:00:01,291 --> 01:00:03,792 - Strategizing... it's time to accelerate the issues, 1150 01:00:03,875 --> 01:00:06,834 because they don't want to see a united Africa. 1151 01:00:06,917 --> 01:00:08,583 They still want to be our masters. 1152 01:00:08,667 --> 01:00:11,500 They don't want us to be liberated economically. 1153 01:00:11,583 --> 01:00:13,333 - But how long should we wait for it? 1154 01:00:13,417 --> 01:00:15,333 Are we going to wait 10 years, 20 years before that? 1155 01:00:15,417 --> 01:00:18,500 That dream will never come to us. 1156 01:00:18,583 --> 01:00:20,667 - [George] Eduardo, if you insist on using force-- 1157 01:00:22,333 --> 01:00:24,834 You will not achieve your goals. 1158 01:00:24,917 --> 01:00:28,542 It's taken us 12 years, using strategy, to get Kwame Nkrumah 1159 01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:33,000 to be president of the once Gold Coast. 1160 01:00:33,083 --> 01:00:35,333 We have an excellent blueprint 1161 01:00:35,417 --> 01:00:38,291 in what you have achieved here. 1162 01:00:38,375 --> 01:00:42,917 - I'm sorry, George, but we have to go forward quickly. 1163 01:00:48,041 --> 01:00:52,583 - Gentlemen, I advise, if you refuse to take my advice-- 1164 01:00:52,667 --> 01:00:54,667 - Please, so is it all that-- (overlapping chattering) 1165 01:00:54,750 --> 01:00:57,417 - I'm falling behind, whatever you decide. 1166 01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:00,709 - Might I suggest, might I suggest that 1167 01:01:01,417 --> 01:01:04,834 you still employ a strategy, 1168 01:01:04,917 --> 01:01:08,625 but we have to be sure that when the time comes, 1169 01:01:08,709 --> 01:01:11,875 we will be ready to defend each other. 1170 01:01:14,375 --> 01:01:16,583 With force, if necessary. 1171 01:01:17,834 --> 01:01:19,917 - We want this to move forward in a non-violent way, 1172 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,291 but if military force is needed to become independent. 1173 01:01:23,375 --> 01:01:24,417 - [George] So be it. 1174 01:01:24,500 --> 01:01:26,917 - So be it, if Mozambique needs us, 1175 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,375 we will be there for you, but if we can't use the gun, 1176 01:01:29,458 --> 01:01:31,917 I will be very happy, okay? 1177 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,750 (group laughs) 1178 01:01:34,834 --> 01:01:36,291 Do you agree? - Yes. 1179 01:01:36,375 --> 01:01:37,125 - [Eduardo] Yes, (mumbles). 1180 01:01:37,208 --> 01:01:38,750 - [Kwame] Okay. 1181 01:01:38,834 --> 01:01:41,709 - The United States of Africa. 1182 01:01:41,792 --> 01:01:43,834 - A United States of Africa. 1183 01:01:43,917 --> 01:01:45,917 - See? (laughs) 1184 01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,083 You are laughing, you see? 1185 01:01:48,166 --> 01:01:50,125 - What a beautiful vision. (group laughs) 1186 01:01:50,208 --> 01:01:52,625 (glasses clinking) 1187 01:01:52,709 --> 01:01:56,834 - Oh, yeah, yeah. (laughs) 1188 01:01:56,917 --> 01:02:01,125 - Somewhere in the heart of Africa, when I am the one. 1189 01:02:01,208 --> 01:02:02,500 - Before we leave this room, gentlemen, 1190 01:02:02,583 --> 01:02:05,208 I'm going to need everyone's signature. 1191 01:02:05,291 --> 01:02:08,417 (upbeat orchestral music) 1192 01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:09,917 - [Announcer] 200 delegates 1193 01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,625 to the All-African Peoples' Conference heard a speech much 1194 01:02:12,709 --> 01:02:14,208 to their liking by the Prime Minister 1195 01:02:14,291 --> 01:02:15,792 of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. 1196 01:02:15,875 --> 01:02:19,375 He told them to (mumbles) a United States of Africa 1197 01:02:19,458 --> 01:02:22,959 to be formed on the model of the USA. 1198 01:02:23,041 --> 01:02:24,333 - I can't wait, I can't wait 1199 01:02:24,417 --> 01:02:26,458 to see independence in your land. 1200 01:02:26,542 --> 01:02:27,750 - Yes. 1201 01:02:27,834 --> 01:02:30,875 - It's a gathering of minds, great minds. 1202 01:02:30,959 --> 01:02:32,500 - With a common vision and a common good 1203 01:02:32,583 --> 01:02:35,166 to drive to us the future is beautiful. 1204 01:02:35,250 --> 01:02:40,000 - The unanimous agency of liberating our continent, 1205 01:02:40,083 --> 01:02:41,875 for me, the high point for me. 1206 01:02:41,959 --> 01:02:45,834 It's gonna be a hard matter, I have the full backing 1207 01:02:45,917 --> 01:02:47,542 of my big brothers. 1208 01:02:48,875 --> 01:02:52,333 - Well, obviously we have a lot of enemies. 1209 01:02:52,417 --> 01:02:53,333 - I think the influence 1210 01:02:53,417 --> 01:02:57,834 of colonial masters is still very significant 1211 01:02:57,917 --> 01:02:59,333 and we need to break that down. 1212 01:02:59,417 --> 01:03:01,959 That, to me, is the most obvious obstacle. 1213 01:03:05,417 --> 01:03:08,625 - Chet Huntley, NBC News, Accra, Ghana. 1214 01:03:09,667 --> 01:03:13,500 ♪ The city's gonna drive the new ♪ 1215 01:03:13,583 --> 01:03:14,625 ♪ And working on his ♪ 1216 01:03:14,709 --> 01:03:16,208 - [Ulric] I am traveling with Padmore 1217 01:03:16,291 --> 01:03:18,375 throughout West Africa to spread the word of African unity. 1218 01:03:18,458 --> 01:03:21,625 ♪ Dreams come true ♪ 1219 01:03:21,709 --> 01:03:26,083 ♪ That's his only remark ♪ 1220 01:03:26,166 --> 01:03:27,500 ♪ Oh, no, no ♪ 1221 01:03:27,583 --> 01:03:31,083 - [Ulric] We have to go over the heads of the chiefs, 1222 01:03:31,166 --> 01:03:32,500 directly to the people in order 1223 01:03:32,583 --> 01:03:35,041 to disrupt the tribal agenda, 1224 01:03:35,834 --> 01:03:39,291 and that of their colonial bosses. 1225 01:03:41,166 --> 01:03:42,875 - Only have one, 'cause it is, yeah-- 1226 01:03:42,959 --> 01:03:44,458 - Only one chieftains? - Yeah. 1227 01:03:44,542 --> 01:03:45,375 - Only one (mumbles). 1228 01:03:45,458 --> 01:03:46,750 (speaking in foreign language) 1229 01:03:46,834 --> 01:03:50,875 - [Ulric] Nkrumah is turning their world upside down. 1230 01:03:50,959 --> 01:03:52,500 We Won't doubt it, pleasure. - Thank you. 1231 01:03:52,583 --> 01:03:53,834 (speaking in foreign language) 1232 01:03:53,917 --> 01:03:57,667 And he has the overwhelming support of the people. 1233 01:03:57,750 --> 01:03:59,750 ♪ Love, come back to me ♪ 1234 01:03:59,834 --> 01:04:03,417 ♪ Oh, oh, love, come back to me ♪ 1235 01:04:03,500 --> 01:04:06,166 - Today I would like to talk to you about people, 1236 01:04:06,250 --> 01:04:11,250 power of people, people like you can achieve independence 1237 01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:15,333 in Togo and bring a new birth of a nation. 1238 01:04:15,417 --> 01:04:18,417 (group applauds) 1239 01:04:18,500 --> 01:04:20,542 - [Ann] It's glorious to hear your news. 1240 01:04:20,625 --> 01:04:23,709 I saw in the papers that Congo became independent. 1241 01:04:23,792 --> 01:04:25,125 I wish I was with you. 1242 01:04:25,208 --> 01:04:26,333 (crowd cheers) 1243 01:04:26,417 --> 01:04:29,500 (background noise drowns out singer) 1244 01:04:29,583 --> 01:04:34,125 ♪ It was you that set me free ♪ 1245 01:04:34,208 --> 01:04:37,041 - [Ulric] Padmore is inspiring, unrelenting. 1246 01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:42,583 (group applauds) 1247 01:04:43,542 --> 01:04:46,667 (speaking in foreign language) 1248 01:04:46,750 --> 01:04:48,792 - Would it surprise you to know 1249 01:04:48,875 --> 01:04:51,750 that there are billions of dollars worth 1250 01:04:51,834 --> 01:04:54,458 of resources in Africa's soil? 1251 01:04:54,542 --> 01:04:57,125 (speaking in foreign language) 1252 01:04:57,208 --> 01:05:02,250 The word of unification. (speaking in foreign language) 1253 01:05:04,125 --> 01:05:05,041 Is it 1254 01:05:09,333 --> 01:05:11,291 independence. 1255 01:05:14,166 --> 01:05:15,000 PK, 1256 01:05:16,333 --> 01:05:17,917 PK. 1257 01:05:19,166 --> 01:05:22,250 (overlapping chattering) 1258 01:05:22,333 --> 01:05:23,291 - [PK] Get him water. 1259 01:05:23,375 --> 01:05:24,125 - I must continue. 1260 01:05:27,041 --> 01:05:30,625 It's okay, it's okay, but I must continue. 1261 01:05:32,083 --> 01:05:32,125 No, no, no, 1262 01:05:35,250 --> 01:05:40,291 I must continue, I'm sorry, I need to go on. (cries) 1263 01:05:40,917 --> 01:05:42,792 (slow music) 1264 01:05:48,750 --> 01:05:50,500 - [Ulric] Padmore has fallen gravely ill. 1265 01:05:50,583 --> 01:05:51,417 - Sorry. 1266 01:05:53,667 --> 01:05:55,500 - [Ulric] We are bringing him to London for treatment. 1267 01:05:55,583 --> 01:05:58,750 Please meet me there. 1268 01:05:58,834 --> 01:06:00,500 - In the meantime, Ulric was writing, 1269 01:06:00,583 --> 01:06:05,583 saying that he couldn't do without me. (laughs) 1270 01:06:06,375 --> 01:06:09,125 (slow piano music) 1271 01:06:17,875 --> 01:06:19,959 - [Ulric] "Meet me at Trafalgar Square, 1272 01:06:20,041 --> 01:06:24,375 "stop, Tuesday, the 15th, 10:00 am, stop." 1273 01:06:52,166 --> 01:06:56,000 Excuse me. - Oh, shit. (laughs) 1274 01:07:00,417 --> 01:07:03,834 (phone rings) 1275 01:07:07,291 --> 01:07:10,667 (slow violin music) 1276 01:07:10,750 --> 01:07:11,125 - [Ulric] What? 1277 01:07:20,667 --> 01:07:23,166 - He was our leader. 1278 01:07:23,667 --> 01:07:25,000 He was our father. 1279 01:07:26,375 --> 01:07:27,250 And-- 1280 01:07:29,709 --> 01:07:32,125 - There have been many rumors going around, 1281 01:07:32,208 --> 01:07:36,166 George Padmore, that he died of natural causes. 1282 01:07:40,542 --> 01:07:42,125 I believe that my late husband 1283 01:07:46,208 --> 01:07:50,667 was poisoned. (audience exclaims) 1284 01:07:50,750 --> 01:07:52,166 - [Pony] Ulric, excuse me. 1285 01:07:52,250 --> 01:07:55,583 - Hey, Pony, how long has it been? 1286 01:07:55,667 --> 01:07:57,291 - It's been too long, too bad it had 1287 01:07:57,375 --> 01:07:59,417 to be under these circumstances. 1288 01:07:59,500 --> 01:08:02,333 But I hear you're doing great things in Africa. 1289 01:08:02,417 --> 01:08:03,667 - Well, what about you? 1290 01:08:03,750 --> 01:08:05,291 - I'm at the High Commission. 1291 01:08:05,375 --> 01:08:07,125 - [Ulric] Really? That's great. 1292 01:08:07,208 --> 01:08:09,375 - It fits me, it suits me. 1293 01:08:12,291 --> 01:08:13,667 Poisoned? 1294 01:08:13,750 --> 01:08:17,500 - [Ulric] Yeah, that's what she thinks, I was just with him. 1295 01:08:17,583 --> 01:08:18,583 - Really? 1296 01:08:18,667 --> 01:08:23,583 - A couple weeks ago, on High Commission business. 1297 01:08:23,667 --> 01:08:25,166 He seemed a little bit under the weather, 1298 01:08:25,250 --> 01:08:25,917 but nowhere near death's door. 1299 01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,417 - Something isn't right, I mean, 1300 01:08:28,500 --> 01:08:30,041 how does somebody go from being on top 1301 01:08:30,125 --> 01:08:33,542 of the world one minute to being in an urn the week after? 1302 01:08:33,625 --> 01:08:34,917 - You tell me. (slow orchestral music) 1303 01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,959 - Strange things are happening, Pony. 1304 01:08:37,041 --> 01:08:41,458 I feel like there's somebody following me. 1305 01:08:43,834 --> 01:08:45,083 - You're being a little bit paranoid, aren't you? 1306 01:08:45,166 --> 01:08:47,792 - I might, I mean, who would want to kill George? 1307 01:08:47,875 --> 01:08:49,250 And I was right there with him, 1308 01:08:49,333 --> 01:08:52,458 I mean, who's to say they wouldn't want to kill me too? 1309 01:08:52,542 --> 01:08:54,291 - Why would they kill you? 1310 01:08:54,375 --> 01:08:57,417 - I was there with him, drafting everything. 1311 01:08:57,500 --> 01:08:59,875 - Look, Ulric, calm down, man, you're not making any sense. 1312 01:08:59,959 --> 01:09:01,041 - [Ulric] I know. 1313 01:09:01,125 --> 01:09:02,375 - [Pony] You're gonna have to tell me exactly 1314 01:09:02,458 --> 01:09:03,208 what you were doing over there in Africa. 1315 01:09:03,291 --> 01:09:05,542 Start at the beginning. 1316 01:09:05,625 --> 01:09:06,583 - The intention is to create the federation 1317 01:09:06,667 --> 01:09:11,041 of African states that could stand on its own. 1318 01:09:11,125 --> 01:09:14,333 Of course, that would mean cutting some ties with Europe. 1319 01:09:14,417 --> 01:09:17,208 - Now, you see that right there, that's subversive. 1320 01:09:17,291 --> 01:09:18,291 - [Ulric] How? 1321 01:09:18,375 --> 01:09:21,208 - That's how it's gonna be interpreted, man. 1322 01:09:21,291 --> 01:09:22,375 Did you have any contact with the Soviets? 1323 01:09:22,458 --> 01:09:23,333 - No. 1324 01:09:25,959 --> 01:09:28,792 - All right, I'll take your word for it. 1325 01:09:28,875 --> 01:09:30,208 Okay, so what's next for you? 1326 01:09:30,291 --> 01:09:33,667 - I'll carry Padmore's things back with me. 1327 01:09:33,750 --> 01:09:36,500 - What things? 1328 01:09:36,583 --> 01:09:38,417 - Writings, papers. 1329 01:09:38,500 --> 01:09:39,750 - Why don't you let me send them back 1330 01:09:39,834 --> 01:09:41,417 in a diplomatic pouch for you. 1331 01:09:41,500 --> 01:09:44,542 - Thanks, but it's my responsibility. 1332 01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,834 - [Pony] Little lady going with you? 1333 01:09:48,917 --> 01:09:51,834 - [Ulric] She's my wife, Pony. 1334 01:09:51,917 --> 01:09:54,959 She'll be joining me in two weeks. 1335 01:09:55,875 --> 01:09:59,083 It's gonna require an adjustment for her. 1336 01:09:59,166 --> 01:10:03,250 (overlapping chattering) 1337 01:10:03,333 --> 01:10:05,709 - Passport and ticket, please. 1338 01:10:05,792 --> 01:10:10,709 Thank you very much, where are you flying to today, perfect. 1339 01:10:10,792 --> 01:10:13,625 - [Daphne] Good evening, sir. 1340 01:10:13,709 --> 01:10:14,834 - Hello, good evening. 1341 01:10:14,917 --> 01:10:16,709 - May I see your passport, please? 1342 01:10:16,792 --> 01:10:18,291 - Sure, of course. 1343 01:10:22,750 --> 01:10:25,875 (slow ambient music) 1344 01:10:25,959 --> 01:10:27,500 Would you follow me, please? 1345 01:10:27,583 --> 01:10:28,417 - Sure. 1346 01:10:34,542 --> 01:10:37,375 - Place your bag over here, please. 1347 01:10:39,125 --> 01:10:41,417 What is your occupation, Mr. Cross? 1348 01:10:41,500 --> 01:10:42,667 - I'm a lawyer. 1349 01:10:45,166 --> 01:10:47,000 - What kind of lawyer? 1350 01:10:48,959 --> 01:10:52,000 - I work for the government of Ghana. 1351 01:10:53,291 --> 01:10:54,583 - [Daphne] What is your affiliation 1352 01:10:54,667 --> 01:10:57,083 with the Communist Party of Great Britain? 1353 01:10:57,166 --> 01:11:00,333 - None, I work for the government of Ghana. 1354 01:11:00,417 --> 01:11:04,500 - They have a communist government there, don't they? 1355 01:11:04,583 --> 01:11:07,458 What is your relationship with George Padmore? 1356 01:11:09,792 --> 01:11:11,250 - Might I ask why? 1357 01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:23,709 Madam, I have a plane to catch. 1358 01:11:23,792 --> 01:11:26,834 Is there some reason that I'm being upheld? 1359 01:11:26,917 --> 01:11:30,291 - You will leave when I am good and ready. 1360 01:11:36,166 --> 01:11:38,208 How long have you known Mr. Padmore? 1361 01:11:38,291 --> 01:11:40,000 - A couple of years. 1362 01:11:41,041 --> 01:11:42,333 Mr. Padmore was a friend. 1363 01:11:49,041 --> 01:11:50,542 - And Mr. Lumumba? 1364 01:11:55,208 --> 01:11:58,291 - I want to speak to my consulate representative. 1365 01:12:01,875 --> 01:12:04,750 - Pack your things, I'll meet you outside. 1366 01:12:04,834 --> 01:12:05,208 - [Ulric] Pony? 1367 01:12:05,291 --> 01:12:07,208 - [Pony] Yes? 1368 01:12:07,291 --> 01:12:08,250 - [Ulric] Something kind of rubbish is going on, okay? 1369 01:12:08,333 --> 01:12:09,542 They stopped me from getting on the flight, 1370 01:12:09,625 --> 01:12:10,625 and they took away-- - Okay, Ulric, Ulric, 1371 01:12:10,709 --> 01:12:12,250 what is this, what's going on? 1372 01:12:12,333 --> 01:12:15,250 - They stopped me from getting on the flight, 1373 01:12:15,333 --> 01:12:18,375 and they took away Padmore's papers. 1374 01:12:18,458 --> 01:12:20,583 - That's odd. - Yeah, exactly. 1375 01:12:20,667 --> 01:12:22,792 Why the hell would they take away Padmore's papers? 1376 01:12:22,875 --> 01:12:24,458 I mean, that's a dead man's private letters. 1377 01:12:24,542 --> 01:12:25,750 - Calm-- 1378 01:12:25,834 --> 01:12:27,125 - It's going down, right? - Listen to me. 1379 01:12:27,208 --> 01:12:28,917 - Something is up. - Hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. 1380 01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:31,583 Okay, listen to me, listen to me, 1381 01:12:31,667 --> 01:12:32,875 you give them what they want. 1382 01:12:32,959 --> 01:12:33,667 - [Ulric] No, no, no, no, no-- 1383 01:12:33,750 --> 01:12:34,291 - [Pony] And I'm going to have you 1384 01:12:34,375 --> 01:12:34,834 on that flight-- - Pony. 1385 01:12:34,917 --> 01:12:37,291 - [Pony] In no time. 1386 01:12:37,375 --> 01:12:38,542 - No, man, I can't do that, Pony, I can't do that, okay? 1387 01:12:38,625 --> 01:12:43,542 - Hey, listen, communism is a hot button issue right now. 1388 01:12:43,625 --> 01:12:46,333 No, no, no, no, just let it go, let it go. 1389 01:12:46,417 --> 01:12:49,125 On another day, you wouldn't be traveling at all, 1390 01:12:49,208 --> 01:12:52,291 so get yourself on that plane and get where you're going. 1391 01:12:52,375 --> 01:12:54,542 And I will see what I can do about those papers, all right? 1392 01:12:54,625 --> 01:12:56,667 I will make sure that they're in a diplomatic bag 1393 01:12:56,750 --> 01:12:58,959 and sent onto you in Accra. 1394 01:12:59,625 --> 01:13:03,208 (slow acoustic guitar music) 1395 01:13:03,291 --> 01:13:06,458 - This is a day of national sorrow in Ghana. 1396 01:13:06,542 --> 01:13:09,333 The flags are at half mast, this is the funeral 1397 01:13:09,417 --> 01:13:12,917 of George Padmore, Padmore was a revolutionary, 1398 01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:14,625 an exhorter of people. 1399 01:13:14,709 --> 01:13:16,000 - [Ulric] Padmore wanted to be buried 1400 01:13:16,083 --> 01:13:18,458 in Laparu Cemetery with his mother, 1401 01:13:18,542 --> 01:13:19,458 but he died penniless. 1402 01:13:23,458 --> 01:13:26,542 So Nkrumah brought him home to Ghana. 1403 01:13:30,417 --> 01:13:34,625 After the public event, we convened at the castle. 1404 01:13:36,041 --> 01:13:37,625 - Padmore, a West Indian, has traveled most 1405 01:13:37,709 --> 01:13:39,542 of the revolutionary circuit, the disciple 1406 01:13:39,625 --> 01:13:43,041 of Moscow here in Africa, today his actions have arrived 1407 01:13:43,125 --> 01:13:48,000 in Ghana to be. (music drowns out speaker) 1408 01:13:57,458 --> 01:13:58,417 And to all the other nationalists of Africa, 1409 01:13:58,500 --> 01:14:02,000 still adhering to his (music drowns out speaker) 1410 01:14:02,083 --> 01:14:03,583 and the United States of Africa. 1411 01:14:03,667 --> 01:14:07,917 ♪ My heart, my heart ♪ 1412 01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:13,208 ♪ My heart, my heart ♪ 1413 01:14:13,625 --> 01:14:14,875 ♪ My heart ♪ 1414 01:14:14,959 --> 01:14:18,333 - [Ulric] People's lives had been transformed 1415 01:14:18,417 --> 01:14:20,083 by his ideas. 1416 01:14:20,166 --> 01:14:23,625 ♪ This place, this place ♪ 1417 01:14:25,375 --> 01:14:28,667 - [Chet] Chet Huntley, NBC News, Ghana. 1418 01:14:32,792 --> 01:14:35,125 (slow music) 1419 01:14:39,166 --> 01:14:42,709 - [Ulric] Grief stricken with Padmore gone, 1420 01:14:42,792 --> 01:14:44,458 Nkrumah struggled to cope. 1421 01:14:44,542 --> 01:14:46,208 - We are losing our grip on things. 1422 01:14:46,291 --> 01:14:48,291 I know you think I am paranoid, 1423 01:14:48,375 --> 01:14:51,083 but we cannot trust anybody now. 1424 01:14:51,709 --> 01:14:53,875 They are all around us. 1425 01:14:55,500 --> 01:14:57,625 They are within our walls. 1426 01:14:58,667 --> 01:14:58,709 Even now, 1427 01:15:00,542 --> 01:15:03,917 I think we are there, are they in the plants? 1428 01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:07,750 Are they behind the pictures, can you hear me? 1429 01:15:09,417 --> 01:15:11,500 I need you to go to Congo, 1430 01:15:12,709 --> 01:15:16,458 and let me know if we need to intervene. 1431 01:15:16,542 --> 01:15:18,417 - [Ulric] At the All-Africa Conference, 1432 01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:20,542 we had promised to stand together 1433 01:15:20,625 --> 01:15:24,875 and to defend each other from the greed of Europe. 1434 01:15:25,917 --> 01:15:26,792 - Do you understand? 1435 01:15:26,875 --> 01:15:28,208 - [Ulric] Yes. 1436 01:15:28,291 --> 01:15:31,375 With force, if necessary, now Nkrumah wanted me 1437 01:15:31,458 --> 01:15:35,500 to go to Congo, to let him know if the time had come to act. 1438 01:15:40,333 --> 01:15:42,667 I saw land torn up by mines, 1439 01:15:44,166 --> 01:15:48,333 the world's biggest diamond store, now a site of war. 1440 01:15:51,667 --> 01:15:55,625 It had begun with Lumumba's inaugural speech. 1441 01:15:55,709 --> 01:15:59,583 (speaking in foreign language) 1442 01:16:00,917 --> 01:16:04,083 Lumumba let the Belgians know that from now on, 1443 01:16:04,166 --> 01:16:06,125 his country's huge wealth would not be used 1444 01:16:06,208 --> 01:16:08,625 to line the pockets of kings and chiefs, 1445 01:16:10,333 --> 01:16:14,333 but improve the lives of the people. 1446 01:16:17,500 --> 01:16:20,709 For this, Lumumba became a marked man. 1447 01:16:23,250 --> 01:16:25,750 They made him eat that speech. 1448 01:16:27,250 --> 01:16:30,583 The people rose to defend their elected leader. 1449 01:16:35,583 --> 01:16:37,291 Then he disappeared. 1450 01:16:43,917 --> 01:16:47,500 I saw a country under military rule. 1451 01:16:47,583 --> 01:16:51,333 A United Nations Peacekeeping Force was in place, 1452 01:16:51,417 --> 01:16:55,667 but they were not authorized to intervene. 1453 01:16:55,750 --> 01:16:59,792 This gave cover to Lumumba's enemies to do their dirty work. 1454 01:17:05,500 --> 01:17:08,250 General Mobutu, Lumumba's right hand man 1455 01:17:08,333 --> 01:17:12,250 and chief of staff, took charge. 1456 01:17:12,333 --> 01:17:13,208 - Sit. 1457 01:17:19,125 --> 01:17:21,250 I've called this press conference 1458 01:17:21,333 --> 01:17:24,041 to make it very clear-- 1459 01:17:24,125 --> 01:17:25,625 - [Ulric] He announced that Lumumba was dead. 1460 01:17:25,709 --> 01:17:28,625 - [Mobutu] You couldn't even see his body, 1461 01:17:28,709 --> 01:17:31,375 his body was not found, unfortunate. 1462 01:17:31,458 --> 01:17:35,291 - [Ulric] Killed by his own people. 1463 01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:39,041 - Where is he? 1464 01:17:40,083 --> 01:17:42,875 Trust me, if I knew anything about Patrice, 1465 01:17:42,959 --> 01:17:44,625 I would tell you, I don't know. 1466 01:17:46,583 --> 01:17:48,333 - [Ulric] Then I saw a familiar face. 1467 01:17:48,417 --> 01:17:50,959 - [Denver] Denver Heilard from the Washington Post. 1468 01:17:51,041 --> 01:17:52,417 We have reason to believe that-- 1469 01:17:52,500 --> 01:17:55,041 - [Ulric] What was she doing there? 1470 01:17:55,125 --> 01:17:56,959 - This is the problem I have with you people. 1471 01:17:57,041 --> 01:17:59,375 I tried to be nice, I come to you to interact, 1472 01:17:59,458 --> 01:18:01,250 you ask me, do I have-- (overlapping chattering) 1473 01:18:01,333 --> 01:18:04,083 - There's an answer, this is an international affair. 1474 01:18:04,166 --> 01:18:06,125 No, take your hands off me, please. 1475 01:18:07,709 --> 01:18:10,792 - [Ulric] I later learned she was head of MI6 in Africa. 1476 01:18:16,208 --> 01:18:18,458 On her deathbed, she would confess 1477 01:18:18,542 --> 01:18:20,959 to organizing the assassination of Lumumba. 1478 01:18:21,041 --> 01:18:22,542 - [Mobutu] One more question. 1479 01:18:22,625 --> 01:18:24,041 - We've also heard rumors that you were involved 1480 01:18:24,125 --> 01:18:24,750 in Lumumba's death. 1481 01:18:26,500 --> 01:18:27,750 - [Mobutu] Who are you? 1482 01:18:27,834 --> 01:18:30,041 - Ulric Cross is the name. 1483 01:18:30,125 --> 01:18:31,208 - [Mobutu] And who is this man? 1484 01:18:31,291 --> 01:18:32,458 - This is Mr. PK Asante, we were both sent 1485 01:18:32,542 --> 01:18:35,458 by President Nkrumah to find out the state 1486 01:18:35,542 --> 01:18:36,709 of affairs in the Congo. 1487 01:18:38,500 --> 01:18:39,959 - You say, "State of affairs," 1488 01:18:40,041 --> 01:18:42,959 what do you see, what is the state of affairs now? 1489 01:18:43,041 --> 01:18:45,500 What do you see, you come, what do you see? 1490 01:18:45,583 --> 01:18:48,375 What can you see, what are you hearing? 1491 01:18:48,458 --> 01:18:51,000 The reports circulating words? 1492 01:18:53,208 --> 01:18:54,750 - Are you being paid? 1493 01:18:59,041 --> 01:19:01,208 - But of course Mobutu was also in the pockets 1494 01:19:01,291 --> 01:19:05,291 of the Americans, and that's how it worked. 1495 01:19:05,375 --> 01:19:06,792 - [Announcer] Patrice Lumumba, 1496 01:19:06,875 --> 01:19:08,500 and it has been the signal for violent reactions 1497 01:19:08,583 --> 01:19:11,166 in many parts of the world, first in the United Nations, 1498 01:19:11,250 --> 01:19:12,834 where a Security Council meeting was violently interrupted. 1499 01:19:12,917 --> 01:19:16,625 In Paris, the Federation of African Students demonstrated. 1500 01:19:16,709 --> 01:19:18,333 This was the scene in Belgrade, 1501 01:19:18,417 --> 01:19:20,875 where the crowd, estimated at 150,000 people, marched. 1502 01:19:20,959 --> 01:19:23,542 - [Announcer] Red China jumps on the public 1503 01:19:23,625 --> 01:19:26,834 and the bandwagon to protest the death of Patrice Lumumba. 1504 01:19:26,917 --> 01:19:28,959 (slow piano music) 1505 01:19:33,709 --> 01:19:38,625 - [Ulric] We waited for Nkrumah to act, but he did nothing. 1506 01:19:39,583 --> 01:19:40,834 It was too late. 1507 01:19:43,792 --> 01:19:46,750 - My name is Larry Devlin, I'm a businessman. 1508 01:19:46,834 --> 01:19:49,500 Mobutu is gonna be good for the Congo. 1509 01:19:49,583 --> 01:19:53,125 Import, export, I work all over Africa. 1510 01:19:53,208 --> 01:19:58,083 - My name is Daphne Park, the events were quite organized. 1511 01:20:01,834 --> 01:20:03,875 And it's quite, quite comforting, actually. 1512 01:20:03,959 --> 01:20:06,959 (slow ambient music) 1513 01:20:12,625 --> 01:20:14,959 (gun fires) 1514 01:20:17,500 --> 01:20:21,208 - Oh, God, wake up, it's me, it's me. 1515 01:20:21,291 --> 01:20:23,208 I'm here, it's your wife, it's me. 1516 01:20:23,291 --> 01:20:25,792 (phone rings) 1517 01:20:31,458 --> 01:20:32,375 - [Ulric] Hello? 1518 01:20:32,458 --> 01:20:34,333 - [Pony] Sport. (laughs) 1519 01:20:34,417 --> 01:20:35,792 - [Ulric] Pony? 1520 01:20:35,875 --> 01:20:39,333 - [Pony] Yes, I'm in Ghana, I just got into town. 1521 01:20:39,417 --> 01:20:40,250 - [Ulric] What are you doing here? 1522 01:20:40,333 --> 01:20:42,959 - I'm in Accra, man, I'm coming over now. 1523 01:20:44,750 --> 01:20:47,041 Pull yourself together, man, 1524 01:20:47,125 --> 01:20:50,000 this is not the Ulric Cross I know. 1525 01:20:51,375 --> 01:20:54,542 (slow ambient music) 1526 01:20:58,166 --> 01:21:01,083 - They killed Lumumba, Pony. 1527 01:21:01,166 --> 01:21:04,458 - I know, it was in all the news reels. 1528 01:21:06,667 --> 01:21:09,875 Even polite society in London is talking about it. 1529 01:21:11,917 --> 01:21:14,750 - What am I even doing here, Pony? 1530 01:21:17,166 --> 01:21:18,959 Look, look, plans and more plans. 1531 01:21:23,959 --> 01:21:27,125 Contracts. First Padmore, now Lumumba. 1532 01:21:31,959 --> 01:21:35,125 There's a shadow looming over us, man. 1533 01:21:36,375 --> 01:21:39,291 - You can't let Africa get you down. 1534 01:21:40,375 --> 01:21:42,041 You have come too far. 1535 01:21:43,709 --> 01:21:48,792 You'll have to decide whether this is your battle to fight. 1536 01:21:49,750 --> 01:21:50,709 - [Ulric] Suddenly, I became aware 1537 01:21:50,792 --> 01:21:51,959 of how much I had changed. 1538 01:21:52,041 --> 01:21:54,125 Pony seemed like a stranger to me. 1539 01:21:54,208 --> 01:21:58,375 - Which leads me to, where to next, Mr. Navigator? 1540 01:21:59,458 --> 01:22:00,250 - Cameroon. 1541 01:22:00,333 --> 01:22:04,166 - [Ulric] Only later would I learn why. 1542 01:22:04,250 --> 01:22:08,125 - This man from Trinidad that is not Cameroonian at all. 1543 01:22:08,208 --> 01:22:09,667 (Ann laughs) 1544 01:22:09,750 --> 01:22:14,291 - Cameroon was facing independence. 1545 01:22:14,375 --> 01:22:16,834 The Premiere visited Ghana 1546 01:22:16,917 --> 01:22:21,500 and was discussing their predicament with Nkrumah. 1547 01:22:21,583 --> 01:22:23,959 British civil servants would be withdrawn, 1548 01:22:24,041 --> 01:22:29,125 and they didn't have Cameroonians to fill those posts. 1549 01:22:29,208 --> 01:22:30,625 - One second. Ulric. 1550 01:22:30,709 --> 01:22:33,458 - And had Nkrumah got any ideas? 1551 01:22:33,542 --> 01:22:36,166 He suggest Ulric 'cause he was somebody 1552 01:22:36,250 --> 01:22:39,000 who he would highly recommend. 1553 01:22:39,083 --> 01:22:41,083 - Change is a good thing. 1554 01:22:42,625 --> 01:22:44,417 - [Ann] It was an honor to be requested by Nkrumah to go 1555 01:22:44,500 --> 01:22:48,792 and help out another African country facing independence. 1556 01:22:48,875 --> 01:22:53,166 - Kofi, yes, I just got appointed, I just got appointed. 1557 01:22:53,250 --> 01:22:54,834 I'm coming over, I'll see you soon, man. 1558 01:22:54,917 --> 01:22:56,250 I heard that you're my liaison there? 1559 01:22:56,333 --> 01:22:58,125 - [Ann] Six months before the plebiscite, 1560 01:22:58,208 --> 01:22:59,959 we left and we went to Cameroon. 1561 01:23:01,792 --> 01:23:04,500 (upbeat guitar music) 1562 01:23:04,583 --> 01:23:06,333 ♪ Hey ♪ 1563 01:23:10,125 --> 01:23:13,166 - [Ulric] My old war buddy, Kofi Mensah. 1564 01:23:13,250 --> 01:23:14,208 - [Kofi] Could I meet you there? (laughs) 1565 01:23:14,291 --> 01:23:16,792 - [Ulric] Is there to pick us up from the airport, 1566 01:23:16,875 --> 01:23:19,417 and I hadn't seen him in a number of years. 1567 01:23:19,500 --> 01:23:20,667 So what's going on on the plebiscite? 1568 01:23:20,750 --> 01:23:24,834 - [Kofi] One is speaking French and one is speaking English. 1569 01:23:24,917 --> 01:23:26,917 There are two different models of the constitution 1570 01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:27,750 that you have to erect immediately. 1571 01:23:27,834 --> 01:23:29,959 - [Ann] And we were staying in Benue, 1572 01:23:30,041 --> 01:23:34,250 which is about 4,000 feet above sea level. 1573 01:23:34,333 --> 01:23:35,834 - We have some people, like Ahidjo. 1574 01:23:35,917 --> 01:23:40,583 I can personally vouch for him, so he is a very good man. 1575 01:23:40,667 --> 01:23:43,333 We are coming close to the house here, look, look, look. 1576 01:23:43,417 --> 01:23:46,917 - [Ann] And we went up, and there is this huge German castle 1577 01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:48,709 in front of us. 1578 01:23:48,792 --> 01:23:50,667 - [Ulric] Nice, Mr. Mensah, you've done well. 1579 01:23:50,750 --> 01:23:51,500 - [Kofi] Well, what I have, I'll let you have. 1580 01:23:51,583 --> 01:23:53,166 (Ulric laughs) 1581 01:23:53,250 --> 01:23:54,250 - [Ann] And that was 1582 01:23:54,333 --> 01:23:56,709 where the administrative capital developed, 1583 01:23:56,792 --> 01:24:00,291 and that's where we were posted. 1584 01:24:12,375 --> 01:24:13,417 - It's fine. 1585 01:24:13,500 --> 01:24:14,792 - Good, good, good, good friends. 1586 01:24:14,875 --> 01:24:16,750 - [Ulric] Wonderful. 1587 01:24:16,834 --> 01:24:17,625 - [Kofi] Please, Ulric. 1588 01:24:17,709 --> 01:24:20,125 - [Ulric] Watch your step. 1589 01:24:20,208 --> 01:24:22,792 - [Kofi] Ulric, King Dodo. 1590 01:24:22,875 --> 01:24:25,125 - King Dodo, nice to meet you. - We're happy you're here. 1591 01:24:25,208 --> 01:24:25,959 - [Kofi] And-- 1592 01:24:26,041 --> 01:24:26,750 - We're happy you're here. 1593 01:24:26,834 --> 01:24:27,500 - [Kofi] Nana Mensah-- 1594 01:24:27,583 --> 01:24:28,166 - Nana Mensah Seko. 1595 01:24:28,250 --> 01:24:28,625 - Nana Mensah? - Seko. 1596 01:24:28,709 --> 01:24:30,625 - Ulric Cross. 1597 01:24:31,333 --> 01:24:33,333 Thank you. - Thank you, too. 1598 01:24:33,417 --> 01:24:34,166 - [Kofi] Let's lead the way. 1599 01:24:34,250 --> 01:24:35,625 - [Ulric] All right. 1600 01:24:35,709 --> 01:24:37,458 - [Kofi] So this is where you'll be staying. 1601 01:24:37,542 --> 01:24:41,000 - [Ulric] I was in the right place at the right time. 1602 01:24:41,083 --> 01:24:41,750 This is a lovely house. (upbeat drumming) 1603 01:24:41,834 --> 01:24:46,625 (speaking in foreign language) 1604 01:24:47,709 --> 01:24:52,166 I arrived in Cameroon as Assistant Attorney General. 1605 01:24:52,250 --> 01:24:53,959 - By the power bestowed upon me, 1606 01:24:54,041 --> 01:24:55,542 I am going to read over to you the oath 1607 01:24:55,625 --> 01:24:56,583 of office, Mr. Ulric Cross, 1608 01:24:56,667 --> 01:24:59,000 you are now the new Attorney General of Cameroon. 1609 01:24:59,083 --> 01:25:00,083 - Thank you very much. 1610 01:25:02,542 --> 01:25:05,583 After the plebiscite, I became the attorney general. 1611 01:25:05,667 --> 01:25:08,667 My job was to integrate the two legislative parts, 1612 01:25:08,750 --> 01:25:10,333 French and English. 1613 01:25:12,792 --> 01:25:16,875 - Attorney General of Cameroon, 1614 01:25:18,125 --> 01:25:20,083 Nkrumah agreed to release this gentleman to me. 1615 01:25:20,166 --> 01:25:25,333 His name is Mr. Ulric Cross. (audience applauds) 1616 01:25:25,417 --> 01:25:28,875 - He was a member of the elected members Assembly, 1617 01:25:28,959 --> 01:25:31,250 so he was advising them about the law. 1618 01:25:31,333 --> 01:25:34,834 - I don't want us to see ourselves as French Cameroon 1619 01:25:34,917 --> 01:25:38,917 or English Cameroon, there's only one Cameroon, 1620 01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:40,834 one word, so I want-- (overlapping chattering) 1621 01:25:40,917 --> 01:25:44,500 - [Ann] The objective was to try to revise the laws 1622 01:25:44,583 --> 01:25:48,125 and to see how the two systems could be joined, which 1623 01:25:50,750 --> 01:25:52,417 was really an impossible job. 1624 01:25:52,500 --> 01:25:53,250 Then, because of this problem 1625 01:25:53,333 --> 01:25:56,959 with not having experienced lawyers. 1626 01:25:58,458 --> 01:25:59,792 - [Julius] Just imagine where we would be 1627 01:25:59,875 --> 01:26:03,041 if I had four of your kind. 1628 01:26:03,125 --> 01:26:05,291 - Well, if it's more people like me that you want, 1629 01:26:05,375 --> 01:26:06,333 then no problem. 1630 01:26:06,417 --> 01:26:09,375 - [Ann] They decided to go to the Caribbean. 1631 01:26:09,458 --> 01:26:13,000 (upbeat orchestral music) 1632 01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:15,834 - So we're going to talk to a number of people, 1633 01:26:15,917 --> 01:26:17,083 'cause the white colonial lawyers 1634 01:26:17,166 --> 01:26:19,333 don't have the right attitude, 1635 01:26:19,417 --> 01:26:21,792 and the Cameroonians don't have the right training. 1636 01:26:21,875 --> 01:26:23,000 We are looking for colored lawyers 1637 01:26:23,083 --> 01:26:24,750 who have the right attitude, 1638 01:26:24,834 --> 01:26:28,417 and we'll have a very high level of education. 1639 01:26:28,500 --> 01:26:31,208 They would be able to train Cameroonians, 1640 01:26:31,291 --> 01:26:33,125 to eventually take over their jobs. 1641 01:26:33,208 --> 01:26:35,875 My minister and I came down to the West Indies, 1642 01:26:35,959 --> 01:26:37,208 aiming to recruit the best lawyers we could find 1643 01:26:37,291 --> 01:26:42,291 for the job at hand, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados. 1644 01:26:42,375 --> 01:26:47,417 Cedric, we're giving you the opportunity to build a dream. 1645 01:26:48,667 --> 01:26:50,000 You get to come in from the ground. 1646 01:26:50,083 --> 01:26:51,083 Yeah, I know you're successful as a lawyer here-- 1647 01:26:51,166 --> 01:26:51,750 - 14 years. 1648 01:26:51,834 --> 01:26:53,250 - That's perfect. 1649 01:26:55,625 --> 01:26:57,709 - Cala Coley Balatan, your name comes highly recommended 1650 01:26:57,792 --> 01:26:58,667 on my list. 1651 01:26:58,750 --> 01:26:59,834 This is Mr. Simon Achu, 1652 01:26:59,917 --> 01:27:01,458 he's the Minister of Justice from Cameroon. 1653 01:27:01,542 --> 01:27:02,875 - [Cosi] Cosi Harris. 1654 01:27:02,959 --> 01:27:05,792 - Oh, you are in, you're in, man. 1655 01:27:05,875 --> 01:27:06,625 We're drafting a new constitution 1656 01:27:06,709 --> 01:27:09,709 for a new nation, a united Cameroon. 1657 01:27:09,792 --> 01:27:11,000 As you know, it's French and English now, 1658 01:27:11,083 --> 01:27:14,250 and help create a new Africa. 1659 01:27:15,375 --> 01:27:17,583 - When are you looking for me to start? 1660 01:27:17,667 --> 01:27:19,583 - [Ann] They needed those people immediately, 1661 01:27:19,667 --> 01:27:22,000 and they were able to get them very quickly. 1662 01:27:22,083 --> 01:27:25,041 They recruited eight Caribbean lawyers. 1663 01:27:25,125 --> 01:27:26,959 - [Ulric] The recruitment was so successful 1664 01:27:27,041 --> 01:27:29,291 of West Indians working in Cameroon 1665 01:27:29,375 --> 01:27:34,500 that the local opposition newspaper wrote an editorial, 1666 01:27:34,583 --> 01:27:37,834 "West Indian Colonialism in Cameroon." 1667 01:27:40,333 --> 01:27:42,166 - You still haven't talked about yourself, though, 1668 01:27:42,250 --> 01:27:44,750 so where do you come in? (Ann laughs) 1669 01:27:44,834 --> 01:27:47,166 (Nicola laughs) 1670 01:27:47,250 --> 01:27:48,959 (slow piano music) 1671 01:27:49,041 --> 01:27:52,875 - The closest friend I had was Gladys Andeli. 1672 01:27:52,959 --> 01:27:54,709 Women and children. - Women and children. 1673 01:27:54,792 --> 01:27:56,500 (overlapping chattering) 1674 01:27:56,583 --> 01:27:58,792 - So rooms to be, how many rooms do you think we need? 1675 01:27:58,875 --> 01:28:00,250 And she said, "What about trying 1676 01:28:00,333 --> 01:28:03,333 "to establish a health clinic here?" 1677 01:28:03,417 --> 01:28:05,000 - If we have it open, we can have more beds 1678 01:28:05,083 --> 01:28:07,834 and we can attend to more women. 1679 01:28:07,917 --> 01:28:10,166 - I was in a privileged position 1680 01:28:10,250 --> 01:28:12,458 because I went to the British Consul 1681 01:28:14,542 --> 01:28:16,834 and I asked him how I could get the money. 1682 01:28:16,917 --> 01:28:19,750 He said, "I know, every 1683 01:28:22,583 --> 01:28:25,959 "February or March, you'll have to add up how much money 1684 01:28:26,041 --> 01:28:29,542 "you've got left, and then you send it back to Britain." 1685 01:28:29,625 --> 01:28:31,709 He said, "You can have the money." 1686 01:28:31,792 --> 01:28:34,208 And then, of course, we had to get the land. 1687 01:28:34,291 --> 01:28:36,917 Now, the land is controlled by the chief, 1688 01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:39,709 endless meetings, nobody would agree. 1689 01:28:39,792 --> 01:28:41,417 - [Gladys] We have to talk to them. 1690 01:28:41,500 --> 01:28:46,083 - The women actually refused to their marital rights. 1691 01:28:47,125 --> 01:28:49,834 - So the men will understand the serious matter. 1692 01:28:49,917 --> 01:28:52,041 (overlapping chattering) (group laughs) 1693 01:28:52,125 --> 01:28:54,875 - It's not uncommon, apparently. 1694 01:28:55,709 --> 01:28:58,375 And so it was pegged out, we held it 1695 01:28:58,458 --> 01:29:03,208 in an old German church with lots of holes in the roof. 1696 01:29:04,166 --> 01:29:06,542 So we used to have to take buckets 1697 01:29:06,625 --> 01:29:08,750 for the water to come through the roof. 1698 01:29:08,834 --> 01:29:13,792 (slow music) (overlapping chattering) 1699 01:29:15,959 --> 01:29:20,709 And it is, to this day, it's called the Ann Cross Clinic. 1700 01:29:22,333 --> 01:29:25,125 I mean, it just changed my life. 1701 01:29:26,291 --> 01:29:28,417 It was just a privilege to be there. 1702 01:29:28,500 --> 01:29:30,166 (overlapping chattering) 1703 01:29:30,250 --> 01:29:33,917 I would have been happy to stay there forever. 1704 01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:34,709 - [Secretary] Mr. Cross, there's a call 1705 01:29:34,792 --> 01:29:38,125 for you on line one from Ghana. 1706 01:29:38,208 --> 01:29:39,000 - Mr. Cross here. 1707 01:29:39,083 --> 01:29:41,208 - Okay, thank you, Ulric? 1708 01:29:41,291 --> 01:29:43,208 - Ah, PK, how are you, man? 1709 01:29:43,291 --> 01:29:44,083 - [PK] There's been a coup. 1710 01:29:44,166 --> 01:29:45,291 - What? 1711 01:29:45,375 --> 01:29:47,792 - [PK] Can you come back from the post? 1712 01:29:47,875 --> 01:29:48,500 - [Soldier] You cannot come here. 1713 01:29:48,583 --> 01:29:51,792 - PK, PK. (slow piano music) 1714 01:29:51,875 --> 01:29:52,792 - [Soldier] Put everything out, come out. 1715 01:29:52,875 --> 01:29:57,125 - PK? (slow music) 1716 01:29:57,208 --> 01:29:59,667 - Put everything out, come out. 1717 01:29:59,750 --> 01:30:01,125 - [Ulric] What? 1718 01:30:01,208 --> 01:30:02,750 - Come out, get out of here. (overlapping chattering) 1719 01:30:02,834 --> 01:30:04,458 Come out. 1720 01:30:05,917 --> 01:30:07,208 You will hurt bad, get out. 1721 01:30:07,291 --> 01:30:08,208 - [PK] Please, please don't shoot. 1722 01:30:08,291 --> 01:30:12,291 (background noise drowns out speaker) 1723 01:30:12,375 --> 01:30:13,667 (gun fires) 1724 01:30:13,750 --> 01:30:15,208 - [Reporter] And what was Mr. Nkrumah's reaction 1725 01:30:15,291 --> 01:30:16,625 when he heard of the revolt? 1726 01:30:16,709 --> 01:30:18,625 - He didn't believe it. 1727 01:30:18,709 --> 01:30:19,875 - [Reporter] Do you think he-- 1728 01:30:19,959 --> 01:30:20,709 - So Ann, are you listening to this? 1729 01:30:20,792 --> 01:30:22,125 - Of course I did. 1730 01:30:22,208 --> 01:30:23,750 - [Reporter] Ghana to try and make a political comeback? 1731 01:30:23,834 --> 01:30:26,250 - He said it wasn't possible. 1732 01:30:27,875 --> 01:30:31,333 - These lands were given to me by my forefathers. 1733 01:30:31,417 --> 01:30:34,000 This thing about giving to receive in future, 1734 01:30:34,083 --> 01:30:35,458 I want no part of that. 1735 01:30:35,542 --> 01:30:38,250 - You can no longer think of it in terms of 1736 01:30:38,333 --> 01:30:39,959 what is yours is yours, and what is mine is mine. 1737 01:30:40,041 --> 01:30:41,417 (overlapping chattering) 1738 01:30:41,500 --> 01:30:43,750 - We're not trying to take advantage of anybody. 1739 01:30:43,834 --> 01:30:47,041 - Resources in one part of Cameroon does not belong only 1740 01:30:47,125 --> 01:30:48,583 to that part of Cameroon. 1741 01:30:48,667 --> 01:30:50,208 - We are not going to share with any other region. 1742 01:30:50,291 --> 01:30:51,458 - My first interest is my people. 1743 01:30:51,542 --> 01:30:53,917 - You'll be taking care of your people while-- 1744 01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:56,417 - This meeting is over. 1745 01:30:56,500 --> 01:30:59,875 - Ahidjo became a dictator, like Mobutu. 1746 01:31:00,667 --> 01:31:04,125 He clamped down on all resistance, 1747 01:31:05,792 --> 01:31:08,500 bypassing the laws of the country. 1748 01:31:11,500 --> 01:31:16,125 Yes, get the president on the phone immediately, please. 1749 01:31:17,375 --> 01:31:19,625 All right, okay, thank you. 1750 01:31:28,375 --> 01:31:31,041 Can you get Kofi Mensah on the line, please? 1751 01:31:31,125 --> 01:31:32,208 Tell him I need to speak to him. 1752 01:31:32,291 --> 01:31:34,792 You tell him I want to see him. 1753 01:31:34,875 --> 01:31:36,959 (Kofi knocks) 1754 01:31:37,041 --> 01:31:39,083 - Hello, Kofi. 1755 01:31:40,875 --> 01:31:42,542 How are you? 1756 01:31:42,625 --> 01:31:43,667 - I'm good, how are you? 1757 01:31:43,750 --> 01:31:44,583 - [Ann] Good to see you, do you want a drink? 1758 01:31:44,667 --> 01:31:46,417 - [Kofi] Oh, please, please, something-- 1759 01:31:46,500 --> 01:31:48,375 - [Ann] I'll fix whatever you'd like. 1760 01:31:48,458 --> 01:31:49,542 - [Kofi] Mr. Cross. 1761 01:31:49,625 --> 01:31:53,417 - Kofi, sit down, Ahidjo has clearly gone mad. 1762 01:31:54,875 --> 01:31:56,125 - What do you mean? 1763 01:31:56,208 --> 01:31:58,750 - Last week, Friday, for instance, yes, 1764 01:31:58,834 --> 01:32:01,291 I'm sitting in my office, in walks this young lady. 1765 01:32:01,375 --> 01:32:02,709 She comes, she brings a letter to me, 1766 01:32:02,792 --> 01:32:05,583 telling me that Ahidjo just repealed, 1767 01:32:05,667 --> 01:32:10,083 changed parts of the constitution to suit himself. 1768 01:32:10,166 --> 01:32:11,041 This is the same rubbish that Hitler was going on with-- 1769 01:32:11,125 --> 01:32:14,542 (Kofi laughs) 1770 01:32:14,625 --> 01:32:15,375 - Thank you. 1771 01:32:15,458 --> 01:32:16,750 - What about the rule of law? 1772 01:32:16,834 --> 01:32:18,917 - You are making comparisons to Adolf Hitler. 1773 01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:20,250 - Yes. 1774 01:32:20,333 --> 01:32:21,291 - And do you even understand the people 1775 01:32:21,375 --> 01:32:22,750 that are against him? 1776 01:32:22,834 --> 01:32:25,208 The tribal chiefs are not giving him any leeway. 1777 01:32:25,291 --> 01:32:26,208 He has to come out strong. 1778 01:32:26,291 --> 01:32:28,959 - That's dictatorship. 1779 01:32:30,542 --> 01:32:34,417 - Sorry, I forgot, the two equate in your mind, yes? 1780 01:32:34,500 --> 01:32:36,709 - Look, in Africa, we do things quite differently. 1781 01:32:36,792 --> 01:32:38,208 Maybe it's something that you're not used to, 1782 01:32:38,291 --> 01:32:38,875 but we do it differently-- - Really? 1783 01:32:38,959 --> 01:32:40,250 - Yes. 1784 01:32:40,333 --> 01:32:42,625 - This, my friend, is the same reason why all 1785 01:32:42,709 --> 01:32:45,291 of those imperial people tend to look at all 1786 01:32:45,375 --> 01:32:47,709 of us as a bunch of niggas-- 1787 01:32:48,875 --> 01:32:52,375 - Fine, we are niggas, fuck the imperialists, fuck them. 1788 01:32:52,458 --> 01:32:57,458 Your people, what do you want us to do? 1789 01:32:57,542 --> 01:32:59,166 You came here and you thought this place would be 1790 01:32:59,250 --> 01:33:01,000 so disorganized that you would come on your white horse 1791 01:33:01,083 --> 01:33:03,083 and change everything. 1792 01:33:03,166 --> 01:33:03,792 - What blasted white-- 1793 01:33:03,875 --> 01:33:05,041 - When we have things in place-- 1794 01:33:05,125 --> 01:33:06,208 - [Ulric] Listen-- 1795 01:33:06,291 --> 01:33:08,500 - You become intimidated because you are not used to it. 1796 01:33:08,583 --> 01:33:10,667 - Kofi, I came to this country to do a job. 1797 01:33:10,750 --> 01:33:13,750 I can't do my job if I'm being undermined every step 1798 01:33:13,834 --> 01:33:14,875 of the way. 1799 01:33:14,959 --> 01:33:16,458 - What part of your job are you not doing? 1800 01:33:16,542 --> 01:33:19,458 - Look, I'm doing my job, let's get that very, very clear. 1801 01:33:19,542 --> 01:33:20,959 What I'm trying to tell you is 1802 01:33:21,041 --> 01:33:25,208 that your friend is making my job very difficult. 1803 01:33:25,291 --> 01:33:28,083 - So I guess your job here is done. 1804 01:33:32,792 --> 01:33:33,959 - Take it easy. 1805 01:33:34,750 --> 01:33:37,000 - You need to watch your mouth. 1806 01:33:37,083 --> 01:33:38,125 - Why, this is my house. 1807 01:33:38,208 --> 01:33:42,125 - That we provided for you, that we provided for you. 1808 01:33:42,208 --> 01:33:43,792 - [Ulric] Yes, sir. 1809 01:33:45,500 --> 01:33:49,458 - You are ungrateful, you know that? 1810 01:33:50,125 --> 01:33:51,667 Choose what you want to do. 1811 01:33:59,375 --> 01:34:03,500 - I can't do this anymore, I can't do it anymore. 1812 01:34:05,125 --> 01:34:09,333 - That's it, given up, quit, move on, shut down? 1813 01:34:09,417 --> 01:34:12,291 - I'm not giving up, I'm just saying, it's done, 1814 01:34:12,375 --> 01:34:13,709 okay, my job-- - Of course it's not done. 1815 01:34:13,792 --> 01:34:14,875 - Yes, it is done. 1816 01:34:14,959 --> 01:34:16,709 - Does Kofi think it's done? 1817 01:34:16,792 --> 01:34:17,917 - I don't think-- 1818 01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:19,208 - Does Cosi Harris think it's done? 1819 01:34:19,291 --> 01:34:20,166 Nobody thinks it's done, it's so far from done. 1820 01:34:20,250 --> 01:34:21,625 - We are leaving. 1821 01:34:24,375 --> 01:34:28,333 - Yes, sir, oh, I will go anywhere with you, sir. 1822 01:34:28,417 --> 01:34:29,709 You demand too much, you demand too much from me. 1823 01:34:29,792 --> 01:34:32,542 I am your wife, you ask me, I am your equal. 1824 01:34:32,625 --> 01:34:34,792 - I don't have to ask you nicely. 1825 01:34:34,875 --> 01:34:35,959 - Yes, you do have to-- 1826 01:34:36,041 --> 01:34:38,375 - I going back to-- - Well, I'm not coming. 1827 01:34:38,458 --> 01:34:39,083 - What? 1828 01:34:39,166 --> 01:34:40,458 - I'm not coming, I'm staying. 1829 01:34:40,542 --> 01:34:42,875 - You're not staying here, we are done. 1830 01:34:46,041 --> 01:34:47,500 - You don't think I understand the situation-- 1831 01:34:47,583 --> 01:34:48,583 - No, I don't think you understand. 1832 01:34:48,667 --> 01:34:49,417 - [Ann] No. 1833 01:34:49,500 --> 01:34:51,959 - You clearly don't understand. 1834 01:34:52,041 --> 01:34:53,583 If you want to stand here with me right now 1835 01:34:53,667 --> 01:34:56,750 and have this argument, right, a useless argument, 1836 01:34:56,834 --> 01:34:59,083 you're not even arguing a formal point of logic, 1837 01:34:59,166 --> 01:35:01,583 you're just arguing from a point of emotion. 1838 01:35:01,667 --> 01:35:05,333 - I am a human being, I am a human being 1839 01:35:05,417 --> 01:35:06,583 that has emotions and has feelings. 1840 01:35:06,667 --> 01:35:09,291 I am connected and I am committed to this place. 1841 01:35:09,375 --> 01:35:11,583 You are asking me to leave that, to cut my ties. 1842 01:35:11,667 --> 01:35:12,583 I can't do that, where does it go? 1843 01:35:12,667 --> 01:35:15,583 I don't know where to push it down to. 1844 01:35:15,667 --> 01:35:17,333 - Push what down to? 1845 01:35:18,291 --> 01:35:19,208 - Feelings. 1846 01:35:19,959 --> 01:35:22,458 - See that, look, I understand, 1847 01:35:22,542 --> 01:35:26,166 you love your friends and you built your hospital, 1848 01:35:26,250 --> 01:35:27,458 okay, and I'm very-- 1849 01:35:27,542 --> 01:35:28,667 - Just don't patronize me about that, 1850 01:35:28,750 --> 01:35:31,792 it's not just about that, it's about making change, 1851 01:35:31,875 --> 01:35:33,125 about making a difference. 1852 01:35:33,208 --> 01:35:35,000 Slowly and surely you commit your life 1853 01:35:35,083 --> 01:35:36,500 to that, I commit my life, 1854 01:35:36,583 --> 01:35:38,208 I'm here for the good. - Okay, and what about me? 1855 01:35:38,291 --> 01:35:40,083 - [Ann] You don't commit, you just pack your bags and leave. 1856 01:35:40,166 --> 01:35:41,542 - I have committed. 1857 01:35:41,625 --> 01:35:42,667 - Then stay. 1858 01:35:42,750 --> 01:35:43,750 - [Ulric] I'm not-- 1859 01:35:43,834 --> 01:35:44,792 - Stay, stay. 1860 01:35:44,875 --> 01:35:45,792 - [Ulric] What is wrong-- 1861 01:35:45,875 --> 01:35:46,709 - Please, for me, stay. 1862 01:35:46,792 --> 01:35:49,291 - Why do you think you're being so spoiled? 1863 01:35:49,375 --> 01:35:51,041 You're acting, you're being like a child. 1864 01:35:51,125 --> 01:35:52,709 - Fuck. 1865 01:35:54,625 --> 01:35:57,959 - Look, sweetheart, I need you to think clearly 1866 01:35:58,041 --> 01:35:59,625 for a second, just. 1867 01:36:03,917 --> 01:36:06,917 - I would, I'll do whatever you want me to do. 1868 01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:10,458 - Thank you. (slow music) 1869 01:36:11,917 --> 01:36:15,417 - He was saying, "You've done so much," and so on. 1870 01:36:15,500 --> 01:36:19,083 I said, "I have learnt far more than you have from me." 1871 01:36:19,166 --> 01:36:20,750 (slow music) 1872 01:36:28,917 --> 01:36:32,458 (music drowns out speaker) 1873 01:36:39,709 --> 01:36:40,834 - [Ann] I'll miss you so much. 1874 01:36:40,917 --> 01:36:41,917 - [Gladys] I'll miss you a lot. 1875 01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:45,250 (overlapping chattering) 1876 01:36:45,333 --> 01:36:47,250 (Gladys mumbles) 1877 01:36:47,333 --> 01:36:49,000 - [Ann] Don't worry. 1878 01:36:59,959 --> 01:37:01,500 - [Gladys] Bye Ann. 1879 01:37:04,792 --> 01:37:06,542 - Yeah, I always believe you can change the world, 1880 01:37:06,625 --> 01:37:08,959 you see, that's the trouble. 1881 01:37:12,125 --> 01:37:17,291 - [Ulric] I still had one more adventure left in me. 1882 01:37:20,417 --> 01:37:23,208 - So what brought you to Tanzania? 1883 01:37:24,291 --> 01:37:27,291 (upbeat flute music) 1884 01:37:28,792 --> 01:37:30,542 - [Ulric] I had been nine years in West Africa. 1885 01:37:30,625 --> 01:37:34,250 I decided to go to East Africa. 1886 01:37:34,333 --> 01:37:37,917 I heard that Nyerere was doing great things in Tanzania. 1887 01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:41,125 - [Ann] Nyerere was introducing this 1888 01:37:41,208 --> 01:37:43,333 African socialism, Ujamaa. 1889 01:37:44,750 --> 01:37:47,041 - [Ulric] My friend, Telford Georges 1890 01:37:47,125 --> 01:37:49,125 from Trinidad, was Chief Justice there, 1891 01:37:49,208 --> 01:37:52,417 and he invited me to fill a judgeship. 1892 01:37:54,208 --> 01:37:57,250 - [Ann] Then I thought I was ill, 1893 01:37:57,333 --> 01:38:01,792 so I had to go to the doctor and discovered I was pregnant. 1894 01:38:01,875 --> 01:38:02,792 And, well, it was a bit of a surprise, 1895 01:38:02,875 --> 01:38:06,208 'cause we'd been married then 10 years, 1896 01:38:06,291 --> 01:38:07,750 I think, yeah, and of course, 1897 01:38:07,834 --> 01:38:11,458 my African friends were so happy. 1898 01:38:19,834 --> 01:38:22,792 (slow piano music) 1899 01:38:23,750 --> 01:38:25,625 - Yeah, we'll do that again, very easily. 1900 01:38:25,709 --> 01:38:28,291 (Ulric laughs) 1901 01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:35,333 - [Nicola] I was born in Tanzania in 1974. 1902 01:38:37,375 --> 01:38:41,709 I guess I always saw myself as a child of the world, 1903 01:38:41,792 --> 01:38:43,041 being able to very easily 1904 01:38:45,917 --> 01:38:48,291 jump from country to country and be okay 1905 01:38:48,375 --> 01:38:51,625 with different cultures, and no matter where I go, 1906 01:38:51,709 --> 01:38:54,125 people think that's where I'm from. 1907 01:38:54,208 --> 01:38:56,166 - [Ulric] And then there was you, yes, you. 1908 01:38:56,250 --> 01:39:01,125 How important you were to my life, you will never imagine. 1909 01:39:04,834 --> 01:39:09,083 So much was happening in Dar es Salaam. 1910 01:39:09,166 --> 01:39:11,125 It was a meeting place for revolutionaries 1911 01:39:11,208 --> 01:39:13,625 and leaders from Africa and the world. 1912 01:39:13,709 --> 01:39:14,834 We all came to be part 1913 01:39:14,917 --> 01:39:18,667 of Nyerere's amazing social experiment. 1914 01:39:18,750 --> 01:39:19,917 Ujamaa, it meant family. 1915 01:39:23,500 --> 01:39:27,667 I was deeply involved, Nyerere offered sanctuary 1916 01:39:27,750 --> 01:39:30,041 and military training to independence movements 1917 01:39:30,125 --> 01:39:32,750 across the continent that I advised 1918 01:39:32,834 --> 01:39:35,000 on constitutional law and labor law. 1919 01:39:37,041 --> 01:39:39,375 I set up the first industrial tribunal 1920 01:39:39,458 --> 01:39:42,542 to give rights to indigenous workers. 1921 01:39:43,625 --> 01:39:46,750 Then Nyerere himself asked me to be the dean of law 1922 01:39:46,834 --> 01:39:49,959 at the university, I could not refuse. 1923 01:39:54,709 --> 01:39:58,709 The law was a weapon that transformed colonial structures. 1924 01:39:58,792 --> 01:40:02,750 We all knew the dangers that were ever present. 1925 01:40:04,166 --> 01:40:09,208 (explosion rumbles) (slow orchestral music) 1926 01:40:29,667 --> 01:40:31,667 It was soon after that that I got a letter 1927 01:40:31,750 --> 01:40:33,291 from CLR in London. 1928 01:40:35,917 --> 01:40:39,083 - [CLR] Ulric, I have unsettling news. 1929 01:40:41,125 --> 01:40:42,083 - [Publisher] I think it's a beautiful book, 1930 01:40:42,166 --> 01:40:43,250 obviously. - Thank you. 1931 01:40:43,333 --> 01:40:44,792 - Beautifully written, and a story 1932 01:40:44,875 --> 01:40:45,750 whose time has absolutely come, 1933 01:40:45,834 --> 01:40:48,542 I'm so excited about it. - Thank you. 1934 01:40:48,625 --> 01:40:52,000 I was at the club with my publisher, discussing my new book. 1935 01:40:52,083 --> 01:40:56,625 - That woman over there, don't look, 1936 01:40:56,709 --> 01:40:59,834 it's Daphne Park, head of MI6 in Africa. 1937 01:40:59,917 --> 01:41:03,375 A real ball breaker, planning a drop off, no doubt. 1938 01:41:03,458 --> 01:41:04,834 - In plain sight? 1939 01:41:04,917 --> 01:41:06,917 - No one would dare to question her. 1940 01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:10,250 Well, that's probably one of her moles. 1941 01:41:13,792 --> 01:41:16,959 - That's Pony, I can vouch 1942 01:41:17,041 --> 01:41:18,959 for him personally, he's a friend. 1943 01:41:19,041 --> 01:41:22,625 - They always are, what's his background? 1944 01:41:22,709 --> 01:41:25,208 - Well-- - Ex RAO, thought so. 1945 01:41:26,709 --> 01:41:29,125 That's how they recruit them, their loyalty is proven, 1946 01:41:29,208 --> 01:41:33,959 Colonial Office, Diplomatic Corps allows them 1947 01:41:34,041 --> 01:41:37,166 to travel without detection, use diplomatic immunity, 1948 01:41:37,250 --> 01:41:38,875 and of course, win confidence 1949 01:41:38,959 --> 01:41:41,834 in high places, gather information. 1950 01:41:41,917 --> 01:41:45,583 - [CLR] No, he's, no, no, he-- 1951 01:41:45,667 --> 01:41:47,709 - [Pony] There's plenty. 1952 01:41:47,792 --> 01:41:50,000 - Why would he betray us? 1953 01:41:50,083 --> 01:41:53,417 - Money, believe it or not, Nello, 1954 01:41:53,500 --> 01:41:55,875 some people have no scruples. 1955 01:41:57,750 --> 01:42:02,458 Oh, here we go, I wonder whose photos are in that camera? 1956 01:42:06,375 --> 01:42:10,709 - All right, stationary, thank you, got it, lovely. 1957 01:42:11,542 --> 01:42:13,375 Lovely. 1958 01:42:13,458 --> 01:42:14,917 - [CLR] I hear that Pony is now 1959 01:42:15,000 --> 01:42:18,208 with the Foreign Service in Tanzania, take all precautions. 1960 01:42:18,291 --> 01:42:23,583 I am convinced now that his intentions are nefarious. 1961 01:42:24,917 --> 01:42:28,041 - Anthony Macfarlane, call me Pony. 1962 01:42:29,917 --> 01:42:30,792 You know, when you arrive in London, 1963 01:42:30,875 --> 01:42:34,291 you have to look sharp, you know, sport. 1964 01:42:36,333 --> 01:42:41,375 Last call, last call, ah, there he is, the man himself. 1965 01:42:42,875 --> 01:42:44,000 - [George] Good to see you, man, you finally made it. 1966 01:42:44,083 --> 01:42:45,417 - Yeah, the three of you look like you're plotting a coup. 1967 01:42:45,500 --> 01:42:46,625 - [George] No. 1968 01:42:46,709 --> 01:42:47,709 - Looking at both the houses of Parliament? 1969 01:42:47,792 --> 01:42:48,542 - [George] No. 1970 01:42:48,625 --> 01:42:50,250 (group laughs) 1971 01:42:50,333 --> 01:42:51,041 - [Pony] Cheers. 1972 01:42:51,125 --> 01:42:52,291 - [CLR] Cheers. 1973 01:42:54,667 --> 01:42:58,166 - So I think my friend, Anthony Macfarlane, is a spy. 1974 01:43:00,083 --> 01:43:02,166 This is gonna sound crazy. 1975 01:43:04,333 --> 01:43:06,208 But it's a string of coincidences. 1976 01:43:08,291 --> 01:43:10,792 He always shows up where the action is. 1977 01:43:10,875 --> 01:43:12,834 - [Pony] Excuse me, Ulric. 1978 01:43:12,917 --> 01:43:14,250 - [Ulric] Pony, man, how are you? 1979 01:43:14,333 --> 01:43:14,709 Coincidence or a plan. 1980 01:43:14,792 --> 01:43:16,959 - [Pony] Poison? 1981 01:43:17,041 --> 01:43:19,417 - Yeah, that's what she thinks. 1982 01:43:19,500 --> 01:43:20,834 - I was just with him. 1983 01:43:20,917 --> 01:43:23,250 - [Julius] I'm listening. 1984 01:43:23,333 --> 01:43:26,959 - [Ulric] He's that go-to guy who just happens to be there. 1985 01:43:27,041 --> 01:43:28,917 I'll have to carry Padmore's things back with me. 1986 01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:30,792 - Why don't you let me send them back 1987 01:43:30,875 --> 01:43:32,792 in a diplomatic pouch for you? 1988 01:43:32,875 --> 01:43:36,083 - He has a nose for tragedy. 1989 01:43:36,166 --> 01:43:38,834 First Padmore and now Lumumba, 1990 01:43:38,917 --> 01:43:42,041 there's a shadow looming over us, man. 1991 01:43:45,375 --> 01:43:48,291 And now he comes here to Tanzania. 1992 01:43:48,375 --> 01:43:51,125 I think you are his next target. 1993 01:43:52,500 --> 01:43:57,125 - I'm just very inclined to believe what you're saying, but 1994 01:43:58,917 --> 01:44:01,458 proof is important. (slow piano music) 1995 01:44:01,542 --> 01:44:05,667 He's a diplomat, he has a diplomatic passport. 1996 01:44:05,750 --> 01:44:09,792 This could be a very serious international issue. 1997 01:44:10,583 --> 01:44:11,834 - Sport. 1998 01:44:11,917 --> 01:44:14,458 - Ah, Pony, it's good to see you, man. 1999 01:44:14,542 --> 01:44:20,083 - Look at you, it's great to be here, great to be here. 2000 01:44:21,250 --> 01:44:23,875 - So what brings you to Tanzania, man? 2001 01:44:23,959 --> 01:44:25,417 - Oh, I'm here for a wedding. 2002 01:44:25,500 --> 01:44:28,041 - A wedding, a wedding? 2003 01:44:28,125 --> 01:44:29,291 (Pony laughs) 2004 01:44:29,375 --> 01:44:31,333 - It's more like a rendezvous. 2005 01:44:31,417 --> 01:44:33,125 - You rascal, you're keeping secrets 2006 01:44:33,208 --> 01:44:34,750 in your old age, huh? 2007 01:44:34,834 --> 01:44:38,375 - Classified, classified, the old rules apply. 2008 01:44:38,458 --> 01:44:42,709 - Of course, of course, the old rules always apply, man. 2009 01:44:42,792 --> 01:44:44,125 I dropped him at his hotel. 2010 01:44:44,208 --> 01:44:47,375 The hunter had become the hunted. 2011 01:44:47,458 --> 01:44:50,834 (slow electronic music) 2012 01:44:53,750 --> 01:44:57,166 Pony's rendezvous was a front for a plot 2013 01:44:57,917 --> 01:44:59,792 to overthrow Nyerere. 2014 01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:05,250 He was bringing money and resources in 2015 01:45:05,333 --> 01:45:09,041 for the local conspirators, including a wedding list 2016 01:45:09,125 --> 01:45:13,875 of 57 names of army personnel believed to be sympathetic. 2017 01:45:15,291 --> 01:45:18,792 After that, things moved very quickly. 2018 01:45:18,875 --> 01:45:21,083 (slow ambient music) 2019 01:45:21,166 --> 01:45:25,500 The plotters were rounded up and arrested. 2020 01:45:29,458 --> 01:45:33,375 The surveillance photos told the whole story. 2021 01:45:33,458 --> 01:45:37,166 There was only one thing left for me to do. 2022 01:45:43,667 --> 01:45:44,542 Why, Pony? 2023 01:45:48,792 --> 01:45:49,750 - Why what? 2024 01:45:51,750 --> 01:45:53,583 - Why? - Why what? 2025 01:45:53,667 --> 01:45:56,083 What are you talking about? 2026 01:45:56,166 --> 01:45:57,917 - Who are you, what's your story? 2027 01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:00,792 - It is me, Pony, your old friend. 2028 01:46:00,875 --> 01:46:02,375 - Cut it out, man. 2029 01:46:05,875 --> 01:46:07,000 - I'm an employee of Her Majesty's government, 2030 01:46:07,083 --> 01:46:10,542 just like you used to be. 2031 01:46:10,625 --> 01:46:14,500 Everything I passed on, I got from you. 2032 01:46:14,583 --> 01:46:15,709 WISU, the war. 2033 01:46:18,792 --> 01:46:24,250 You and I are two sides of the same coin, you realize that? 2034 01:46:24,333 --> 01:46:28,458 Come out of the same cauldron of humanity, 2035 01:46:28,542 --> 01:46:31,709 foot soldiers in the same war. 2036 01:46:31,792 --> 01:46:33,375 You don't see what I'm saying? 2037 01:46:35,667 --> 01:46:38,875 How am I to know for certainty that you aren't the spy? 2038 01:46:38,959 --> 01:46:41,583 (slow orchestral music) 2039 01:46:43,709 --> 01:46:46,542 - We're not on the same side, Pony. 2040 01:47:00,667 --> 01:47:01,500 I watched Pony leave. 2041 01:47:07,375 --> 01:47:09,291 I never saw him again. 2042 01:47:22,375 --> 01:47:23,166 (slow piano music) 2043 01:47:23,250 --> 01:47:25,500 - My father gave me choice. 2044 01:47:28,750 --> 01:47:31,250 Not once when I was growing up 2045 01:47:32,458 --> 01:47:36,375 did I ever feel like something was out of reach, 2046 01:47:36,458 --> 01:47:40,583 anything was possible, that was not true for him. 2047 01:47:43,333 --> 01:47:46,417 I have that to thank him for. 2048 01:47:46,500 --> 01:47:49,000 How do you thank someone for that? (laughs) 2049 01:47:49,083 --> 01:47:51,500 (phone rings) 2050 01:47:54,500 --> 01:47:56,041 - [Ulric] Isaac Hyatali was Chief Justice 2051 01:47:56,125 --> 01:47:58,709 in Trinidad at the time. 2052 01:47:58,792 --> 01:48:00,166 Yes, hi, Isaac, how are you? 2053 01:48:00,250 --> 01:48:03,250 He called me and said, "Ulric, it's time for you 2054 01:48:03,333 --> 01:48:06,542 "to come home," and I said yes. 2055 01:48:06,625 --> 01:48:08,875 My work in Africa was finished. 2056 01:48:08,959 --> 01:48:11,041 As it just so happens, I think I am prepared to leave. 2057 01:48:11,125 --> 01:48:14,834 (Nicola laughs) 2058 01:48:14,917 --> 01:48:18,875 - [Nicola] He was part of something much bigger. 2059 01:48:19,458 --> 01:48:21,667 He fought the battle, 2060 01:48:23,917 --> 01:48:25,041 but the war is mine to continue. 2061 01:48:25,125 --> 01:48:28,041 ♪ I went somewhere ♪ 2062 01:48:28,125 --> 01:48:31,083 ♪ Looking for another home ♪ 2063 01:48:31,166 --> 01:48:36,166 ♪ Tried to run away, run ♪ away from my destiny ♪ 2064 01:48:37,375 --> 01:48:40,166 ♪ In another world, a world ♪ that was strange to me ♪ 2065 01:48:40,250 --> 01:48:43,125 ♪ Tried to change myself ♪ 2066 01:48:43,208 --> 01:48:46,500 ♪ Change my identity ♪ 2067 01:48:46,583 --> 01:48:48,250 ♪ What's strong is the power of love ♪ 2068 01:48:48,333 --> 01:48:50,542 ♪ And the power of freedom, ♪ the power of love ♪ 2069 01:48:50,625 --> 01:48:53,417 ♪ This fills my heart, I'm going back to ♪ 2070 01:48:53,500 --> 01:48:54,667 - That has been sustained 2071 01:48:54,750 --> 01:48:59,083 by people being brought here against their will, 2072 01:48:59,166 --> 01:49:04,291 of every race, ours is a legacy of resilience amid struggle. 2073 01:49:06,041 --> 01:49:09,166 (slow guitar music) 2074 01:49:29,709 --> 01:49:31,291 ♪ I build this place around my heart ♪ 2075 01:49:31,375 --> 01:49:34,542 ♪ No one can hold my tongue ♪ 2076 01:49:34,625 --> 01:49:37,291 ♪ A hand can feed or fill my belly ♪ 2077 01:49:37,375 --> 01:49:39,417 ♪ Or ever hold it down ♪ 2078 01:49:39,500 --> 01:49:42,000 ♪ I depend on no one for the sunrise ♪ 2079 01:49:42,083 --> 01:49:44,417 ♪ Or even the sunset ♪ 2080 01:49:44,500 --> 01:49:47,291 ♪ And I praise no one but my God ♪ 2081 01:49:47,375 --> 01:49:50,250 ♪ For giving me success ♪ 2082 01:49:50,333 --> 01:49:54,583 ♪ From whence cometh the rain ♪ 2083 01:49:57,083 --> 01:50:01,041 ♪ Who cracks the sea that's ♪ streaming underneath the ground ♪ 2084 01:50:02,875 --> 01:50:06,792 ♪ Who teaches the child to speak ♪ 2085 01:50:06,875 --> 01:50:10,000 ♪ Who inspires my heart ♪ to dance these words ♪ 2086 01:50:10,083 --> 01:50:15,166 ♪ Onto my tongue ♪ 2087 01:50:15,250 --> 01:50:20,375 ♪ I call this city Freetown, ♪ call this city Freetown ♪ 2088 01:50:21,417 --> 01:50:24,875 ♪ Call this city Freetown, ♪ call my city free ♪ 2089 01:50:24,959 --> 01:50:29,750 ♪ Call my city free, call my city free ♪ 2090 01:50:29,834 --> 01:50:34,875 ♪ Call my city free, call my city free ♪ 2091 01:50:36,500 --> 01:50:40,875 ♪ I don't know nowhere to be ♪ 2092 01:50:40,959 --> 01:50:44,250 ♪ I don't know the way to be ♪ 2093 01:50:44,333 --> 01:50:49,417 ♪ I don't know no way to ♪ be, other than to be free ♪ 2094 01:50:50,125 --> 01:50:53,000 ♪ I don't know no way to be ♪ 2095 01:50:53,083 --> 01:50:58,041 ♪ Other than to be free, ♪ I don't know, no, no ♪ 2096 01:50:58,125 --> 01:51:03,000 ♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪ 2097 01:51:03,959 --> 01:51:06,667 ♪ Other than to be free ♪ 2098 01:51:10,875 --> 01:51:11,709 ♪th tn bfr