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Fighting for Change, Against the Odds and with Each Other, a Look Into the DRC Protest Movement—‘Kinshasa Makambo’, dir. Dieudo Hamadi, 2018

An incendiary documentary about three brave men at the forefront of the uprising against Joseph Kabila’s rule shows just how much the protest movements across the world have in common

July 9th, 2020|Country: DR Congo, France, Germany, Norway, Qatar, Switzerland|

Wool Over the Eyes—‘This Magnificent Cake!’, dir. Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels, 2018

Whimsical felt puppet fantasy from filmmaking couple tackles colonization of Congo by Belgian King Leopold in a graceful satirical exploration of the chaos that ineptitude sows

February 6th, 2020|Country: Belgium, DR Congo, France, Netherlands, South Africa|

DR Congo’s Urban Art Scene Is Pulsating with Politics and Perils—‘System K’, dir. Renaud Barret, 2019

The best art grows out of trash and danger: incendiary documentary profiles the courageous young artists making fierce political statements in the streets of Kinshasa

January 22nd, 2020|Country: DR Congo, France|

Food: New York African Restaurant Week Festival

A delectable journey across the continent in 6 exciting dishes from 5 imaginative chefs in the center of Harlem: and a true testament to the power of plantains

October 15th, 2019|Country: DR Congo, Ghana, Jamaica, Senegal, South Africa, USA, Zimbabwe|

Film: Hero, dir. Frances-Anne Solomon, 2018

A biopic of an extraordinary Trinidadian lawyer whose life spanned some of the most fascinating events of the 20th century, which doubles as a primer on the history of the Pan-Africanist movement.

July 5th, 2019|Country: Cameroon, Canada, DR Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom|

Film: The Mercy of the Jungle, dir. Joël Karekezi, 2018

Two Rwandan soldiers try to survive the jungle after being separated from their platoon during the Second Congo War in the first all-black anti-war film from a young and promising Rwandan talent

June 24th, 2019|Country: Belgium, DR Congo, France, Rwanda|

Music: Orchestre Les Mangelepa, Last Band Standing, 2017

August 7th, 2018|Country: DR Congo, Kenya|

Art: Sim Simaro, The Consecration of Sim Simaro, 2001

March 23rd, 2018|Country: DR Congo|