• Ben Radley

How an industrial mine in the Congo reveals the inequity of wage distribution.

• Sara Geenen
• Mollie Gleiberman
• Elie Lunanga

The optimism for "decent" and "sustainable" jobs in extractive industries does not fit with the reality in many African countries.

• Marta Tveit

What does the decade-old “Congo-case,” involving two Norwegian mercenaries, tell us about residue coloniality in Scandinavia?

• George Kibala Bauer

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?

• Cedric Tolliver

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.

• Henning Melber

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.

• Annette Joseph-Gabriel

The life of Lumumba advisor, Andree Blouin, offers lessons about the historically racialized and sexualized representations of women of color in politics.

• Godefroid Muzalia
• Koen Vlassenroot
• Aymar Nyenyezi
• An Ansoms
• Emery Mudinga

In the Bukavu Series, researchers from two Congolese and two European universities explore how they interrogate violence in the DRC.

• Leila Demarest

How should Belgium's Africa Museum address its colonial past?

• Gillian Mathys
• Margot Luyckfasseel
• Sarah Van Beurden
• Tracy Tansia

An overview of some of the problems and opportunities that the reopening of Belgium's infamous AfricaMuseum brings.

• Pedro Monaville

Patrice Lumumba became a martyr of African independence. But what are Lumumba's "political afterlives" nearly sixty years later?

• George Kibala Bauer

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.

• Charlotte Mertens
• Ann Laudati

On the emergence and political work of the rape-resources narrative in the eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

• Kambale Musavuli

The harsh realities of resistance for a new generation in Joseph Kabila’s Congo.

• Sara Geenen
• Kristof Titeca
• Josaphat Musamba
• Christoph Vogel

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.

• Sarah Katz-Lavigne
• Dr. Jana Hönke

Policymakers need to properly assess the risks to ordinary Congolese people from expanding the “conflict minerals” category.

• George Kibala Bauer

The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.

• Benjamin N. Lawrance

Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?

• Cormac Smith

Do online movements such as #MeToo #HerToo and #TimesUp do enough to address the experiences of all victims of sexual violence?

• Charles Tshimanga