Each weekend, dancers stoked on music and alcohol sway to the old hits on the decrepit rooftop terrace of Kinshasa's ...

Some musicians and historians in the Democratic Republic of Congo are hard at work trying to preserve the tradition of Congolese rumba, which was added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list ...

LUGUFU REFUGEE CAMP, Tanzania, July 13 (UNHCR) - When Milus paints, people notice: his technique of blending water colour and oil has become his trademark. But while the Congolese artist once painted ...

Khabula Lango uses sand and recycled materials to spotlight Congo’s mineral-driven conflicts and environmental costs.

The breakout pop phenomenon of 2025, the French-Congolese artist won the awards for Female Newcomer, Live Newcomer, Album of the Year and Music Video of the Year at France's annual music awards ...

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 ...

Anzor Alem, a rising star of the African music scene, recently announced the postponement of his highly anticipated first album. If this news may disappoint some fans, it testifies to the artist’s ...

Surrounded by cans of paint and canvas in his small studio in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, Richard Lusakumunu feels he has completed his "metamorphosis" from refugee to artist. Richard Lusakumunu, ...

AFA copy 39088019023761 gift from the Museum Rietberg Zürich. Contents Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fictions and art worlds of the Congo between past and present / Michaela Oberhofer / ...

“You are called a woman to build peace where walls divide, to plant hope where tears reside,” writes Do Nsoseme Dora, a Congolese spoken word artist and photographer, in her poem named You are called ...

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand to attention in a clearing. Their handlers, puppeteers dressed in black, begin to move ...