GALESBURG — The city of Galesburg will hold its very first Lipanda Day, a celebration focused on Congolese “culture and integration,” on Saturday, July 2. The event will take place from 2-6 p.m. in ...

On a chilly Friday night, French-speaking Minnesotans and music fans made themselves known at a unique, culture-rich event. The evening featured Bobby Kabeya, an indie-pop musician (better known by ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Any Tintin fan would feel at home in the small wooden shed in a back street of Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, where the shelves are crammed with brightly painted ...

In the two Congos, there’s a cultural movement by the Society of Ambience-Makers and Elegant People (Sape), known as “sapeurs”, who blend fashion, culture and social resistance. Though it was rooted ...

Editor’s Note: This review originally published during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Utopia will release “Omen” in theaters Friday, April 12. One of the innumerable tragedies that have resulted from ...

Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of newly independent Congo for less than three months in 1960, before he was murdered at the age of 35. Yet his tumultuous life—and gruesome death—set a pattern for ...

Reviewed by Z. S. Strother in African arts (Los Angeles) 51 (3) autumn 2018, pages 92-93 (N1.A258 AFA). "Together the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium and the Institut des Musées ...

AS YOU CLIMB the dimly lit staircase at La Crèche nightclub in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, you may hear a man’s high, lilting voice drifting from the rooftop. There, ...

The Congo Basin is home to the world’s second largest rainforest, but it is under increasing strain from development, logging, mining, and other pressures. One of the key ways to slow the loss of ...