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 ...

The heady beats of Congolese rumba were hailed by UNESCO on Tuesday as it added the central African music and dance to its list of global cultural treasures. DAKAR, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The heady beats ...

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 a popular district of Kinshasa, the energetic capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a person encased in brown paper bags surrounded by a large crowd and policemen forcefully breaks ...

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 ...

A month into my first trip to eastern Congo, site of the deadliest conflict since World War II, I had heard plenty of horror stories — from forced cannibalism to the burning alive of the inhabitants ...

Introduction : James Weldon Johnson's transnational vaudeville -- Part I. The nineteenth-century routes of Black transnationalism. George Washington Williams's stern duty of history -- William Henry ...

Military operations and rebel reprisals in eastern Congo have fueled a rise in sexual violence this year, but perpetrators face minimal consequences. An effort to drive out rebel groups has only ...

In June, trombonist and bandleader Delfeayo Marsalis wanted to plan a livestreaming concert with his Uptown Jazz Orchestra for a Juneteenth celebration. But by the time the idea came together, it was ...

The U.N. World Food Programme warned on Friday it may have to pause food aid to help millions of malnourished people in ...

KINSHASA, Sept 20 (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 ...