amy: we are talking to siddharth kara, author of "cobalt red."r book quoting the last letter of patrice lumumba to his wife, the congolese independence leader, first prime minister who was assassinated in 1961. the u.s. went after them specifically the cia, belgium. talk about this quote you right -- >> well, let's go back to the moment of independence in 1960 in the dr congo and 17 countries in africa got independence from the colonial powers that year. congo was coming out of centuries of the slave trade and then belgian colonialism. patrice lumumba was a very bold a popular nationalist leader elected in that country's first democratically elections to be their first president prime minister. he had a bold vision that the congo's mineral wealth, it's rich resources in the congo was blessed with enormous riches and resources, his vision was those resources should be for the benefit of the congolese people and not for empowers. 11 days after independence, belgium amputated the part of the congo that we are talking about right now where all of the