Breakfast at Mobutu’s
Jacques Bongoma was a young Congolese progressive who became a close advisor to Joseph Mobutu after the country’s 1965 coup.
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Pedro Monaville
Pedro Monaville is an assistant professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi.
The politics of elegance
German historian Daniel Tödt wrote a history of the Congolese évolués. In this interview, he talks about the historiographical interventions of his book and the role of Patrice Lumumba in the history of évolués.
Lumumba Lives
Patrice Lumumba became a martyr of African independence. But what are Lumumba’s “political afterlives” nearly sixty years later?
Sex, beer, and ndombolo
A Congolese writer whose work oscillates between gripping dystopia and humanist celebration.