Patrice Lumumba as Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev as Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie as Self (archive footage)

Andrée Blouin as Self (archive footage)

Abbey Lincoln as Self (archive footage)

Max Roach as Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X as Self (archive footage)

Nina Simone as Self (archive footage)

John Coltrane as Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage)

Miriam Makeba as Self (archive footage)

Conor Cruise O’Brien as Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self (archive footage)

René Magritte as Self (archive footage)

Allen Dulles as Self (archive footage)

In Koli Jean Bofane as Self

Gamal Abdel Nasser as Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro as Self (archive footage)