BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Near the banks of Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, artist Patrick Cikuru Cirimwami wades knee-deep through a mountain of ...
Set to hang on the wall of a downtown Montreal art gallery is a painting that means a lot to the artist. The closeup of a ...
A man wearing a silver suit and silver bucket for a helmet walks down a busy dirt street in a ghetto in Kinshasa. This is just an ordinary day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s capital and ...
For decades—if not centuries—people on plantations in Congo and elsewhere have been deprived of culture and forced into unpaid labor. This violence has supported wealth and art in the Global North, ...
Ben Kamuntu is a slameur (slam poet) with Goma Slam Session, a blossoming collective of spoken word artists in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He’s also an activist with the pro-democracy ...
Much of the trash that we “throw away” or “recycle” is actually shipped overseas, often to poorer countries. E-waste, clothing, recyclable plastics, and food packaging are among the items that end up ...
Congolese artist Sammy Baloji's first documentary The Tree of Authenticity fuses images and sounds, and features a talking tree as its narrator, to highlight the connection between Democratic Republic ...
One of France’s biggest pop artists, Christine and the Queens, is calling for urgent attention and action for refugees fleeing violence in the Democratic of the Congo, as concern rises over the number ...
Artist Paul Deo is the not-to-miss artist at Jazz Fest's Congo Square craft booths. You have to see Deo's portrait of Hornets star Chris Paul in person to really appreciate it. The bright, swirling ...