• Africa Is a Country

• Nganji Laeh

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

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Pharrell Williams's pop hit, "Happy," is infectious and feel good. But what is it all about really?

• Nganji Laeh

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

• Minna Zhou

An Adieu to Tabu Ley Rochereau, the master rumba singer-songwriter from the Democratic Republic of 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.

• Harry Stopes

When a member of the UK's House of Lords (a few months before she died) told another Lord, over tea, that she'd organized Lumumba's abduction and murder.

• Tom Devriendt

• Siddhartha Mitter

Congolese musicians are divided over politics: endorse President Joseph Kabila and gain from official patronage, oppose him in exile or cope independently in Kinshasa.

• 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."

• Lara N. Dotson-Renta

Younger generations of artists, many immigrants of African origin, are reconfiguring the arts in France on their own terms.

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Wayne Marshall

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

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dylan Valley

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Tom Devriendt

• Sean Henry Jacobs