topic: Congo

The Siege of Jadotville and Imperialist Aesthetics
February 24, 2017
The only prospect more enthralling than a last stand is a Hollywoodized version of it. Zulu (1964) portrayed the 1879 battle at Rourke’s...
videos
Patrice Lumumba: Rare interview footage before his assassination
January 17, 2017
Transcript coming soon...
Reviews
“Me No Like America”
March 5, 2016
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and stretching deep into the middle of the twentieth, exhibitions of “native” people were held...
Reportage
Denis Mukwege: “We need to save the common humanity in Congo.”
May 20, 2015
Paris, France: Despite an official end to hostilities in 2003, Eastern Congo has remained susceptible to proxy wars with continued fighting...
Conversations
Baloji in Conversation
April 6, 2013
Over a Skype connection from Cape Town to Belgium, I ring up the rapper Baloji. Our chat has been delayed multiple times, which is...
Opinion
A View from Goma
June 12, 2012
GOMA, June 9: Goma has changed. What just a few years ago was a tense city under frequent rumors of impending invasion by armed groups is...
Opinion
Hollywood, Pirated Videos, and Child Soldiers
November 2, 2011
It is one thing to be prepared intellectually for violence, but it is quite another to experience the real thing in the form of a gun...
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