The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

ITS soldiers are underpaid and underarmed. Its ranks are riddled with factions pursuing their own interests. And successive ...

The Central African Copper Bonanza by Timo Särkkä analyses the Western colonial origins of the mining industry and its ...

Congo’s army has appeared too weak and dysfunctional to stop a militia that has swept through the eastern part of the country ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been in the headlines as of late with reports about conflict and the advances of the so-called March 23 Movement rebels. But the colonial history and ...

For sapeurs, appearance is a powerful way to make an impression and stand out in an environment often defined by hardship.

In Namibia, the street debate centers on the colonial past and the path forward. Skip next section Similar stories from Democratic Republic of Congo ...

On this international day of struggle for the rights of women, the CADTM reasserts its commitment to feminist movements that fight systemic oppressions everywhere in the world : ...

The roots of Congo’s fragility run deep. It was left with weak institutions and very little development after decades of Belgian colonialism. Then, after independence, the United States and ...