Society & Culture

Rumba’s Enduring Prestige in Congo-Brazzaville In a region where music often functions as both social glue and diplomatic calling card, Congolese rumba retains a singular resonance. The genre was inscribed …

Ketsia Yoka’s Breakthrough on London Catwalks In early August 2024 the spotlight of London’s competitive fashion scene settled on a newcomer from Pointe-Noire: Ketsia Chelsea Yoka. Groomed by the Brazzaville-based …

Academic-Press Synergy in Brazzaville When the senior executives of La Nouvelle République and the Institut supérieur Polytechnique-Université gathered on 22 August 2025, the polished conference hall of the Brazzaville newsroom …

Visibility of erotic imagery in Brazzaville’s markets The narrow corridor separating the bus stop known as Coaster from the stalls of the Total de Bacongo market is rarely quiet. Porters …

Congo’s Meat Supply and the Overlooked Voyage Long before a plate reaches the dinner table in Brazzaville or Pointe-Noire, a complex journey begins in the grasslands of the Plateaux and …

Faith-Based Humanitarian Diplomacy in Pointe-Noire When more than one hundred elderly residents of the Republic of Congo’s bustling port city quietly gathered at the Polio Centre in Pointe-Noire on 21 …

Literary Portraits of Post-Conflict Trauma in the Pool Few works of fiction on Central Africa have captured the raw intimacy of civil strife as convincingly as Ghislain Thierry Maguessa Ebome’s …

A Long-Dormant Network Finds Its Voice When the Association congolaise des enseignants de français convened at the National Institute for Pedagogical Research in Brazzaville, nearly fifty academics and classroom practitioners …

Ya Vhos and the Resonance of the Sanza Henri Ndonga’s deceptively small instrument—the thumb piano locals call sanza—created a sonic bridge between rural memory and urban modernity. Long before his …

A Voice that Embodied Brazzaville’s Optimism In the collective memory of Congo-Brazzaville, the post-independence years continue to shimmer with the cadence of rumba, a genre that blended Afro-Cuban syncopation with …