Lumumba remains a leading figure in Congolese and African history. He was a revolutionary and a national hero whose ...

The ritual and festive expressions of the Congo culture encompass the contemporary vision of a collective celebration of black rebel descendants enslaved during the colonial period During the Congo ...

In Congo, artists are poor and, quite literally, have to sing for their supper. Many rely on the patronage of the wealthy and the vain to keep their art afloat.

POLITICALLY charged plays are not common in America. “Ruined”, Lynn Nottage's drama set in Congo, is a rare, and remarkable, exception. Since opening off-Broadway in February, this show about ...

One recent afternoon in this booming mining town, in a provincial office crammed with files, something unusual was happening for a country once ruled by the famously kleptocratic dictator Mobutu ...

The Lumumba Plot. By Stuart Reid. Knopf; 624 pages; $35 and £30 P atrice Lumumba was prime minister of newly independent Congo for less than three months in 1960, before he was murdered at the ...

BRAZZAVILLE, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The Confucius Classroom in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, held an open house Saturday ahead of the UN Chinese Language Day on April 20, to ...

The set-up is that Stephanie, a white do-gooder born in Kenya, is trying to plan a festival in London called Congo Voice. The festival will celebrate the culture of the country and, she hopes, draw ...

The problems in the Congo operation, which employs nearly 300 people on development programmes and emergency responses, also indirectly impacted aid recipients, whistleblowers said.

Even after gaining independence in 1960, the nation plunged into further chaos,dictatorships, civil wars, and foreign interference shaped a modern Congo riddled with instability and suffering.Yet ...

The Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, arrived on Wednesday morning in Mbanza Congo, capital of the northern Zaire province, where she will preside over on Thursday the main event of 8 January ...

A NOLA historian and filmmaker reflects on the latest threat—this one from city government—to the beating heart of Black culture in the Crescent City.