Une vie après la mort asks: What would have become Patrice Emery Lumumba today if he had not died in 1961? Would he have become rich and popular, continuing to defend the injustice happening in Africa? Or would he have become spoiled like most leaders we see today?

Fifty-one years after Lumumba's death, I interviewed people in Lubumbashi about his influence. The memory of Lumumba for the Congolese people is limited to January 17, when they commemorate the national hero, and then it is forgotten.

I discovered Kayembe Lubamba Kilobo, a man who dressed and styled his hair like Lumumba. His life story mirrored Lumumba's, but at a different level - one in politics for the country, the other for his family. The project creates a parallel between Lumumba's life before 1961 and Kilobo's life today, with the same ambitions but different contexts.

My question is: What would have become Lumumba today if he had not died in 1961? He would become rich, popular, continuing to respect and defend the injustice that was happening in Africa? Or rich, spoiled like most that we see today in our country. These bring my point of view to the memory of Lumumba's life on the Congolese people that is limited to the day of January 17, to commemorate the national hero, and after it is forgotten.

I started doing interviews in my city of Lubumbashi 51 years later. To my surprise, time is limited to what you learn in primary school as a little history. For two months I looked to find a man by surprise, who made hair and dressed like Lumumba. For me it was a good opportunity to make a fiction work that could bring me Lumumba in 2012. I started doing interviews with the man who's called Kayembe Lubamba Kilobo. In depth, the idea of fiction began to escape me, because I found a story and a ghost in life Kilobo who sent me directly to that of Lumumba.

A real story of two similar lives of different levels: one life in politics for the country, the other life for his family. It all starts young in Katanga province, rival at the time just after the independence of Congo. Adopting the same physical representation in all this secessionist mess and the idea of African unity had his idol. Aside from the physical representation, Kayembe Kilobo traces his experiences and those vis-à-vis the positions of injustice because he tried to make politics at a municipal level. He was arrested for reasons of disagreements. After many failures, he must survive by singing, accompanied by former teachers in his career. The pictures of 14 diptychs create a parallel between Lumumba's life before 1961 for the country and that of Kilobo today for his family, with the same ambitions but different contexts.