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Lipanda Day to celebrate Congolese culture on Saturday

GALESBURG — The city of Galesburg will hold its very first Lipanda Day, a celebration focused on Congolese “culture and integration,” on Saturday, July 2. The event will take place from 2-6 p.m. in ...
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UNESCO honours Congolese rumba as cultural treasure

The heady beats of Congolese rumba were hailed by UNESCO on Tuesday as it added the central African music and dance to its list of global cultural treasures. DAKAR, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The heady beats ...
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‘Our voices matter!’ Congolese artist stuck in Tanzania speaks out about unfair passport situation

Rashidi Alema Anzor, a 24-year-old actor, singer, and producer, is a native of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His passion for cinema led him to a career in theater and film within ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Congolese to share culture through Presbyterian event

“With Song Springs Hope,” a concert series of the Chorale Presbyt?rienne du Congo, will be Saturday through Monday in churches in Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News. The free concerts are ...
Chicago Tribune

Congo questions Tintin’s cultural status ahead of Francophonie

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Any Tintin fan would feel at home in the small wooden shed in a back street of Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, where the shelves are crammed with brightly painted ...
Artnet

Congo Is in a ‘Cultural Crisis.’ Here’s How Artists, Dealers, and Collectors in the Capital of Kinshasa Are Using Art to Solve the Problem

In a popular district of Kinshasa, the energetic capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a person encased in brown paper bags surrounded by a large crowd and policemen forcefully breaks ...
Minnesota Daily

Local musician Miloe celebrates Congolese culture during intimate concert, conversation

On a chilly Friday night, French-speaking Minnesotans and music fans made themselves known at a unique, culture-rich event. The evening featured Bobby Kabeya, an indie-pop musician (better known by ...
The New York Times

No, Sexual Violence Is Not 'Cultural'

A month into my first trip to eastern Congo, site of the deadliest conflict since World War II, I had heard plenty of horror stories — from forced cannibalism to the burning alive of the inhabitants ...
insider.si.edu

Congo love song : African American culture and the crisis of the colonial state / Ira Dworkin

Introduction : James Weldon Johnson's transnational vaudeville -- Part I. The nineteenth-century routes of Black transnationalism. George Washington Williams's stern duty of history -- William Henry ...
Reuters

Congo questions Tintin's cultural status ahead of Francophonie

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Any Tintin fan would feel at home in the small wooden shed in a back street of Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, where the shelves are crammed with brightly painted ...
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Congo questions Tintin's cultural status ahead of Francophonie

KINSHASA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Any Tintin fan would feel at home in the small wooden shed in a back street of Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, where the shelves are crammed with ...