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Written and directed by Congolese Djo Tunga Won Munda, Viva Riva is a very entertaining movie.

Here is the youtube blurb from the trailer
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyjBiIg ... icBoxFilms


Best line in the film (translated from French) "You niggers were better off under colonialism." I don't know where you could see the film. Check the internetz.

Viva Riva is on youtube with subtitles yet. When I checked some years ago, it wasn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXNxKLs ... sAfricanos

Thanks for the pointer. After 6 months in Africa, the continent had a special place in my heart.

Ever read A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul?