• Charles Tshimanga

• Patrick Litanga

Until Joseph Kabila publicly recuses himself from running for a third term, many Congolese will be suspicious of any dialogue proposed by the government.

• Lion Summerbell

Those extracting value from the DRC's soil over last 20 years show they're willing to do anything — including 6 million deaths — to satisfy global commodity markets.

• Fiston Mwanza Mujila

A Congolese writer whose work oscillates between gripping dystopia and humanist celebration.

• Janette Yarwood

Being a pro-democracy, nonviolent youth activist is a dangerous thing in some countries. Like in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Sisonke Msimang

While health professionals are crucial frontline responders, the Ebola crisis is indeed too important to be left to medical personnel.

• Sorana Munsya

Differences can be harmonious and allow people to come together despite their background and roots.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

That story about Akon, the Senegalese-American R&B singer, performing in an air bubble to thousands of screaming Congolese in Goma, because he doesn't want to get Ebola is false

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Football is a Country's Elliot Ross has describes the World Cup Final, every four years, as Christmas Day for football fans, just better. The champion this time is Germany.

• Nganji Laeh

Belgian-Congolese filmmaker, Nganji Laeh, along with musician and composer Badi and filmmaker Monique Mbeka Phoba, explore present day DRC via film.

• Nganji Laeh

Creating spaces where artists related to the Congolese diaspora can freely tell their side of the story.

• Katrien Pype

Can European film producers narrate African pasts without reducing these to just European historical developments?

• Steffan Horowitz

Harry Belafonte and Martin Scorsese are planning a TV series on King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal rule in the Congo.

• Boima Tucker

Alex Lomani is part of the Congolese diaspora, who has lived in the US, the DRC and South Africa. He has just released "Mélancolie Joyeuse," a free EP on Bandcamp of four songs that each speak to his personal experience over the past couple of years.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

VICE partners with old media, makes sponsored content, owns an ad agency, and cozies up to Murdoch — despite its edgy style and fresh take on news.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

In what has little to do with the DRC, Affleck, dubbed Life President of Congo, gets hailed as "Hollywood’s New Role Model" and the "new paradigm of masculinity" in the entertainment world.

• Wills Glasspiegel

Congolese-Belgian MC, Baloji: "In Congo, we had gold, but we turned it to something that had no value because we didn’t treat our country with the right respect."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Congolese film, Viva Riva, is no high-minded, French-funded "cinema" — it’s a gritty gangster film.

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs