Celebrating African Arts In Congo's Heart. Published Mar 19, 2013 at 4:45 AM EDT Updated Mar 14, 2013 at 9:06 PM EDT. Art students paint a fresco at Brazzaville’s Palais de Congrès.

We need to tap into our African culture to save the Congo Basin forest. Farmer Abianga Celine, 40, extracts cocoa beans on a farm in Dikomi-Bafaws. Image by John Novis, Greenpeace.

“It’s a reflection of poverty,” says Ganza Buroko, the coordinator of Yole!Africa, a cultural centre where an estimated 17,000 youth participate. “The people named in the music are thieves.” ...

In Africa’s third-largest city, estimated to have around 15 million inhabitants, ... “We have a cultural crisis in Congo; people have lost trust in their culture,” said Lukama.

Journey across the Congo with a wildlife cameraman who discovers an “African Eden” in his homeland. Despite the number of years living and working as a wildlife cameraman in Europe, Vianet D ...

Congo lacks other key qualities that make a nation: interconnectedness, a government that is able to exert authority consistently in territory beyond the capital, a shared culture that promotes ...

The Congo River exhibition shows over 170 pieces – masks, sculptures, reliquaries – selected by the curator, Brother François Neyt, to illustrate the unity of this immense region which covers ...

A Black scholar, Freddi compared photographs of African instruments with architect Benjamin Latrobe’s 1819 eyewitness drawings of Congo Square drums, strings, and performers.

KINSHASA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Any Tintin fan would feel at home in the small wooden shed in a back street of Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa, where the shelves are crammed with ...