NYARUGUSU REFUGEE CAMP, Tanzania, February 1 (UNHCR) - Himidi stood back from the canvas and, brush in hand, looked with a critical eye at his work. "I decided to draw a waterfall and a bridge, ...
A man wearing a silver suit and silver bucket for a helmet walks down a busy dirt street in a ghetto in Kinshasa. This is just an ordinary day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s capital and ...
KINSHASA (Reuters) - A small recording booth on the outskirts of the Congolese capital Kinshasa has become a safe space for homeless teenagers to rap and sing about their life on the streets and ...
From an art museum on a former plantation, sculptors in Democratic Republic of Congo are challenging injustices and boosting the local economy. At a February workshop in Lusanga, in western-central ...
Authentically African : arts and the transnational politics of Congolese culture / Sarah Van Beurden
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 ...
Much of the trash that we “throw away” or “recycle” is actually shipped overseas, often to poorer countries. E-waste, clothing, recyclable plastics, and food packaging are among the items that end up ...
For decades—if not centuries—people on plantations in Congo and elsewhere have been deprived of culture and forced into unpaid labor. This violence has supported wealth and art in the Global North, ...
In January, 2020, two young men from Lusanga, a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, flew to New York. Cedart Tamasala had never been to the United States before; Mathieu Kasiama had, a ...
Ben Kamuntu is a slameur (slam poet) with Goma Slam Session, a blossoming collective of spoken word artists in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He’s also an activist with the pro-democracy ...
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