Congo’s Gold Curse Continues
The muddy slopes on the hills surrounding the eastern Congolese gold mining town of Kamituga are home to both vast...
Health
With the Coronavirus pandemic, Congo is facing the worst global health crisis in a century while also managing the second-deadliest Ebola epidemic in history and the world’s deadliest measles outbreak. Decades of conflict and misrule mean that a lack of access to basic health care has caused millions of preventable deaths from easily treatable diseases such as malaria, cholera, and diarrhoea. Hospitals often lack basic equipment and staff and run out of essential medicines and supplies. The country has made measureable progress in recent years, due to improved leadership, coordination and investments in priority health issues by the government and international partners, according to USAID. Four facts about Congo’s health system can be found here.
Congo’s Sapeurs Revisit Their Roots
No longer a fringe subculture devoted to showing off their flamboyant fashions to admiring local crowds, the Sapeurs of Brazzaville...
Students Return to School as Pandemic Second Wave Eases
Schools and universities reopened this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a two-month hiatus due to the second...
Congo’s Innovative Coronavirus Fashion
Perhaps nowhere has the unwelcome pandemic accessory of the facemask been so enthusiastically embraced as by Congo’s famous "Sapeurs", for...
Youth Activists Tackle Coronavirus and Disinformation
When a group of activists wearing hooded, full-body personal protection outfits, gloves and masks marched through Gambela market in Congo’s...
Ramadan Under Lockdown in Goma
With coronavirus lockdown rules in effect, Muslims in Goma and elsewhere across Congo were unable to celebrate Ramadan together. Instead,...
Masks ward off police harassment, and coronavirus
The facemask has become a visual signifier of the social contract between an individual and society during the coronavirus pandemic....
Enforcing Goma’s new lockdown curfew
With an uptick of coronavirus cases in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the provincial government imposed new lockdown measures...
Goma’s Clandestine Dancers
With coronavirus restrictions limiting social gatherings, dancers Moses Ramazani, Jérémie Musimbi and Théophile Bany have to find creative ways to...
Decolonizing Beauty
These images are from my project Black Consciousness. It’s an inquiry into communal ideas about African women and beauty, leading...
