‘Africa Will Write Its Own History.’ Who Was Patrice Lumumba?

Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ordered a retired Belgian diplomat stand trial for his 1961 ...
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The fight to save history caught on Congo TV tapes

From the rusty tape reels stacked from floor to ceiling in the long-forgotten archives of Congo-Brazzaville's national ...
insider.si.edu

Hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin : cultures, histories and biology of African Pygmies / Barry S. Hewlett, editor

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...
The Africa Report

African history for Africans: UNESCO’s Afrocentric rethink in three volumes

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...
The New York Times

Congo Repatriates 3 Americans Sentenced to Death Over Failed Coup

The men recently had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment for their role in an attempted coup last May in the central African nation. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Three ...
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African leaders take back Congo peace talks as violence spirals

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s fragile peace process is entering a new phase, as Kinshasa turns to African leaders to reinforce the Washington-brokered deal with Rwanda. With regional leaders ...