Culture


Enjoy Poverty
How Euro-Americans - directly and indirectly - interact with the Congolese: only as victims.


Streets is Watching
Shakira should acknowledge "Waka Waka" is a rip off of a Cameroonian song. Everyone knows that. Also pay the original composers.

Simple Football
Belgian photographer captures grassroots football in 30 villages across 10 countries in west and southern Africa.

Nick Kristof prefers White Saviors
The New York Times columnist, whose reporting is very influential in elite public opinion about Africa, prefer white "bridge characters."

The graphic first 50 years of Congo’s independence
A graphic novel written and illustrated by a group of Congolese graphic artists, take stock of a half-century of independence for the DRC.

Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko's mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.