Congolese-American philosopher, poet, linguist, and novelist, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, died on 21 April in the US at the age of ...

To dodge Trump’s tariffs and wrath, five African presidents played colonial subject, and left their dignity behind.

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Kibetsi is one of nearly a million Congolese who have returned to their homes since the M23 rebel group — backed by Rwanda ...

It IS EASY to make a case that Donald Trump cares little about Africa. On July 1st he closed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), absorbing an institution that spent 40% of ...

Post-independence Africa plagued by corruption and economic collapseTribal divisions, not addressed post-colonialism, fueled violent conflictsSociali ...

This long history has left a grim record: assassinated kings, exiled monarchs, overthrown presidents, and ruling parties that ...

Bad recent history: When former dictator Mobutu Sese Seko fell in 1997, war erupted throughout Congo. A series of peace agreements -- U.N. blessed -- purportedly ended the Great Congo War in 2003.

As Rwanda commemorates its independence, a historian and a political analyst argue that the independence granted on July 1, 1962, was partial and served colonial interests rather than truly liberating ...

Since the Rwandan genocide, the ongoing conflict in east Congo has killed 6 million people, in attacks, famines and unchecked disease outbreaks stemming from the fighting.

Since the Rwandan genocide, the ongoing conflict in east Congo has killed 6 million people, in attacks, famines and unchecked disease outbreaks stemming from the fighting.