Samuel Mudjinda

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 …

Maruisca’s Twelve-Year Artistic Trajectory Maruisca, born Marielle Mavoungou in Pointe-Noire, emerged on the urban arts scene in 2013, when slam was still a fringe genre in Central Africa. After founding …

Malaria burden and a calibrated national response Malaria still claims more than 600 000 lives annually across the continent, and the Republic of Congo accounts for roughly 3 % of …

Brazzaville positions itself as Africa’s cultural agora When the lights dimmed inside the ornately refurbished Palais des Congrès, the symbolic heart of Congo’s diplomatic quarter, the audience of heads of …

A Stage for Linguistic Excellence in the Republic of Congo Few conference halls in Brazzaville are as symbolically charged as that of Marien-Ngouabi University’s rectorate. On 30 July, its polished …