The lesson is clear: democracy in Washington’s playbook is not a universal value but a lever, invoked when nations resist economic control, claim authority over their own…

Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease

It is against human nature to be enslaved, oppressed or occupied by another nation

Katanga, January 17 is a recounting of martyr for African unity Patrice Lumumba’s life

Shinkolobwe mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo produced the uranium that made the US’s nuclear weapons programme possible — and inspired the ‘Wakanda’ comics

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished…

The return of Patrice Lumumba’s remains must not be an occasion for Belgium to congratulate itself, but for a full accounting of the colonial violence that led to the…

BGFIBank allegedly played a central role in a years-long scam that allowed former DRC leader Joseph Kabila’s family and close associates to launder $243-million in public and…

Blaise Compaoré has gone down in history as the man directly responsible for the assasination of Thomas Sankara. He will stand trial in the capital Ouagadougou, along with 13…

Sixty years after the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the DRC’s first prime minister, his remains will be returned from Belgium

A five-minute history of the country since independence

It is a feat to have a Mass that draws from a rich but distorted past to create a new musical canon

A 50-year-old United Nations report has provided new details about the murky circumstances that surround Patrice Lumumba’s murder.