Introduction: The gender of decolonization -- Lumumba on women : from domesticity to political mobilization -- Lumumba and women : the personal meets the political -- Andrée Blouin : a sister among ...

Assassination and political upheaval often come to mind when students of African history think of the Congo. As a major focal point of 1960s decolonization, when indigenous people across the continent ...

A major critical and popular success in Belgium, this sweeping history of Congo begins during the precolonial era and brings readers all the way up to the current era of warlords and civil war. Van ...

Director Johan Grimonprez delves into Belgium's past to investigate the plot against Congolese independence. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Louis Armstrong arrived in the Congolese capital, ...