Low worker wages and high inequality
How an industrial mine in the Congo reveals the inequity of wage distribution.
How an industrial mine in the Congo reveals the inequity of wage distribution.
The optimism for "decent" and "sustainable" jobs in extractive industries does not fit with the reality in many African countries.
What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?
The "Africa needs help" vs. "No! Africa can teach you lessons!" is tiring. Other than benefiting a few pundits, are we deriving any value from it?
Revisiting the clash of the American-born UN diplomat Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba in 1960 over the terms and timeliness of African colonies' independence from their European masters.
Revisiting the events that led to the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld, a key UN official in the decolonization of Africa during the Cold War.
The life of Lumumba advisor, Andree Blouin, offers lessons about the historically racialized and sexualized representations of women of color in politics.
In the Bukavu Series, researchers from two Congolese and two European universities explore how they interrogate violence in the DRC.
How should Belgium's Africa Museum address its colonial past?
An overview of some of the problems and opportunities that the reopening of Belgium's infamous AfricaMuseum brings.
Patrice Lumumba became a martyr of African independence. But what are Lumumba's "political afterlives" nearly sixty years later?
It's the first time an African president appears to have rigged an election, not in favor of his hand-picked successor, but in favor of an opposition politician.
On the emergence and political work of the rape-resources narrative in the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
The harsh realities of resistance for a new generation in Joseph Kabila’s Congo.
A critical review of Swiss theatre director Milo Rau’s multi-media project, "Congo Tribunal,” about the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Policymakers need to properly assess the risks to ordinary Congolese people from expanding the “conflict minerals” category.
The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
Do online movements such as #MeToo #HerToo and #TimesUp do enough to address the experiences of all victims of sexual violence?
The presidential term of Joseph Kabila, in power in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2001, is suppose to end in less than two weeks on December 19th. Kabila is barred from running for another term. The next day Congo should have a new government. For the last year, opposition groups have demanded the electoral […]