Society & Culture

A Blue Wave Through Brazzaville On a luminous Sunday morning, 21 September 2025, a ribbon of blue swept from Place de la République to the Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial. …

Midday impact on the capital’s northern gateway At precisely noon on Friday 19 September 2025, the constant hum of Brazzaville’s Avenue Alfred Raoul was broken by the metallic crack of …

A commemorative gesture with lasting impact The solemn fourth anniversary of Julia Bouya’s passing was marked in Brazzaville by an act of hope rather than mourning. Representing the late philanthropist’s …

Moukanda School Receives Fresh Supplies The dusty playground of Moukanda Primary School in Sibiti briefly turned into a festival ground this week. Smiling children lined up class by class as …

Brazzaville Reopens Its Archives The marble atrium of the Pierre-Savorgnan-de-Brazza Memorial resonated last week with languages drawn from all compass points of the continent. From Abomey to Kinshasa, monarchs, historians …

Brazzaville at the crossroads of memory Few African capitals carry the symbolic weight of Brazzaville, a city whose very name evokes the historic encounter between explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza …

A Ceremony Rooted in Inclusion The palm-fringed courtyard of Handicap Humanité’s headquarters in Mfilou-Ngamaba momentarily turned into a showroom of opportunity on 11 September. Lined up were freezers still wrapped …

Peace as the First Ingredient of Memory From the amphitheatre bearing the name of President Denis Sassou Nguesso inside the Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Memorial, scholars and dignitaries gathered for …

Brazzaville ceremony champions disabled women On 11 September, inside a sun-drenched courtyard of the Mfilou town hall, twenty-two women living with disabilities stepped forward one after another to receive equipment …

Growing urgency around self-harm in Congo In the corridors of Brazzaville’s central hospital, clinicians have begun to speak of a “silent crisis”. National estimates suggest that seven Congolese in every …