
Very African and Very Modern
Congolese artists Konono N°1 and Baloji collaborated by merging “traditional” sounds from Africa's biggest country with hip hop.

Congolese artists Konono N°1 and Baloji collaborated by merging “traditional” sounds from Africa's biggest country with hip hop.

Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe's Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.

Beyonce has been accused of appropriating others' work without attribution. The latest is a Belgium choreographer and her dance company.


The filmmaker hopes Congolese in Belgium can be given a stage to offer their own history and projections of Congo.



Congolese-born Pitcho gathered 23 other Belgian artists from the Congolese diaspora and came out of the Sumo Studio with an album as hybrid as its makers.