In Search of Freedom
Belgian-Congolese filmmaker, Nganji Laeh, along with musician and composer Badi and filmmaker Monique Mbeka Phoba, explore present day DRC via film.
Democratic Republic of Congo
The Congolization Movement
Creating spaces where artists related to the Congolese diaspora can freely tell their side of the story.
The DRC: A country only imagined without agency
Can European film producers narrate African pasts without reducing these to just European historical developments?
Deadline Congo
Harry Belafonte and Martin Scorsese are planning a TV series on King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal rule in the Congo.
Chief Boima interviews … Alec Lomami
This summer I’ve been hired as a freelancer for Iggy, MTV’s global music website. The site
VICE and the “new journalism model”*
The business of journalism as we know is in trouble and there’s a scramble for a
Ben Affleck makes the DRC cool again
The New York Times, in its infinite wisdom (it comes with being The New York Times),
Congo Gold
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."
The Best African Movie
The Congolese film, Viva Riva, is no high-minded, French-funded "cinema" — it’s a gritty gangster film.
Tintin in Congo
Earlier this year, the Congolese government declared European development commissioner Karel De Gucht persona non grata
‘The Blood Diamond Myth’
It would be interesting to hear people’s opinions about this argument by writer Adam Hochchild (the
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Nine young filmmakers and artists look into Congo's histories, its present and future desires.
Cédric Gerbehaye’s Congo
You probably know Belgian photographer Cedric Gerbehaye from his portrait of Laurent Nkunda. That 2007 picture