Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest
For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...
Al Jazeera English16d
Colonising Africa: What happened at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
1885. On the agenda was the clear mapping and agreement of who owned which area. Regions of tax-free commerce and free navigation, particularly in the Congo and Niger River basins, were also to be ...
The Nation Newspaper5d
The rise, rise and rise of capitalism (X)
The situation in the Congo may not be directly associated with capitalism but without capitalism, the situation would have ...
Al Jazeera English19d
Ever wonder why Africa’s borders appear so strange?
Most of these artificial borders trace back to the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference ... by a narrow strip of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cabinda became part of Angola due to historical ...
The Mail & Guardian15d
The art of identity and migration
Immigrants are black and brown people who come from countries in the Global South, including nations in Africa. Expatriates, ...
Morning Star8d
The challenging path to freedom
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Africa's ultimate liberation depends on its ability to decolonise itself including the redrawing of its present national borders imposed by Europe ...
The Nation28d
Soundtrack to a Complicit Silence
Today, you watch a film that maps the violence ... decide to let it repeat. Maybe 1885—King Leopold’s curse, backed by the Western world’s infamous Congo Club—feels too far removed ...
Why Congo’s Vast Army Is Struggling to Fight a Far Smaller Militia
The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.