| 单词 | Congo |
| 例句 | The Methodist minister was a Reverend Jones, a nervous and gloomy fellow who had been based in the Congo during its revolution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It said Khrushchev wanted to take over the Belgian Congo and deprive the innocent savages of becoming a free society, as part of his plan for world domination. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind her, a man was talking about the market, how the traders were dancing to Congo music and giving away the best of their mangoes and groundnuts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Actually, he had it fairly well advanced when he met Amaranta Úrsula, except that it was not for Macondo but for the Belgian Congo, where his family had investments in palm oil. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And all that he could see was the other side of the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z According to my Baptist Sunday-school teachers, a child is denied entrance to heaven merely for being born in the Congo rather than, say, north Georgia, where she could attend church regularly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, the boundary between Congo and Angola is nothing but a line on a map—the Belgians and Portuguese drawing their lots. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually we start with five hundred years ago, when the Portuguese came poking the nose of their little wooden ship into the mouth of the Congo River. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Congo is one long path and I learn to walk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “And still your father came here determined to plant his American garden in the Congo.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Everwhen she goes out, whole bunches of little Congo children run after her on the road a-reaching and a-yanking on her long white hair to see if they can get it to come off. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “In France, yeah. But not in the Congo. Frenchman in the Congo won’t touch a brown egg.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Without that rock of certainty underfoot, the Congo is a fearsome place to have to sink or swim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In Congo, we celebrated major holidays, such as Christmas and Easter, not birthdays. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They don’t have any cars in the Congo and he knew it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There have always been laws against killing or selling bonobos in Congo, but the government had trouble enforcing them before because there was nowhere to place confiscated infants. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z After a month or two, my dad returned to the States, and my mom and I settled into life in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z That was poor little me, suddenly a diplomat’s wife on the edge of the forest prime evil, wearing my Dior gown and long black gloves to embassy parties in Brazzaville, French Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And they like being on their own and I hardly ever see them because they are like okapi in the jungle in the Congo, which are a kind of antelope and very shy and rare. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Now,” my mom said, “this is actually Mama Brunelle’s idea. It wasn’t hard for us to see how much you’re missing the States, so we brought some of the States to Congo.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In Congo, teens did not throw their own parties. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Congo is only a long path that takes you from one hidden place to another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must find the Congo a very uncooperative place.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On Congo Easter Sunday there were no new clothes for the Price girls, that’s for sure. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pebbles from all over Congo will travel up rivers that day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know someone who’s on an isolated island in the middle of the Congo River. About as far from roads and cities as you can get.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Otto lays his arms down, palms open, in the bonobo sign of trust, as little Congo takes a wide-eyed look around and ventures out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Since I had grown up speaking mostly Swahili, one of the languages of Congo, I was impatient with this slow-sounding language of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Whenever she came to visit us in Congo, she looked stylish and hip, with perfect hair and high heels, and she would let me play with her makeup. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Bumba’s main link with the outside world was the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad had picked up a very African sense of humor during his years in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It was impossible to live in Congo without growing a thick skin for bugs, but even so, trudging through the jungle was almost more than I could take. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Congo sprawls on the middle of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about how Mom had run her own business in Congo, how Dad had always held good jobs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It took her that moment to remember that I didn’t live here, that in Congo her daughter was essentially an outsider. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The whir and roar beneath us was the only sound in my ears — riding the bike was the only time I couldn’t hear the constant insects and birds of Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Congo,” I said, relieved that someone was talking to me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Pascal was my nkundi: my first real friend in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In a long and desperate day of travel, they penetrated fifty miles away from the Congo River, and finally, toward evening, they came to a row of round, thatched African houses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once high school was finished, my parents insisted that I go to the States for college — and given the state of the universities in Congo, I agreed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s like I’m back to when I was eight starting school in Florida, and people would ask me what Congo was like; I’d say, “Poor,” and move on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But I didn’t move on from Congo, not in the most important parts of me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Here in the Congo I am pleased to announce there is no special difference between living people, dead people, children not yet born, and gods—these are all muntu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We picked a UN refugee camp near Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, where many of my people have been displaced due to conflict in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z On the Congo’s one long manene Ada learns to walk, amen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A radio show in Congo had discussed my appearance at the Women in the World Summit, and he had heard it in his village. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I cracked open the door to the UN pod and stood at the border of cool, soft-lit sanity and the vivid familiar chaos of Congo at war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Back home in Congo, we didn’t really think about body size. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It makes no sense at all, and then finally all the sense in the world, once you understand that keeping things in your hand is exactly how it’s done in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d fled there many generations before from the highlands of southern Congo during a time of great war and sickness, and settled where the soil was reddish black and fertile as the days were long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The white cashmere vest, impossible for Congo, but which I’d wanted to show off to my mom and so had carted home. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This was the great nuptial gift from the U.S. to the Congo—financing the construction of the Inga-Shaba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Did they eat body parts like they did in the Congo? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Khola virus is named for the Ebola River, which is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary, of the Congo, or Zaire, River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Congo is the Congo’s and ever has been.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Our pets had mostly escaped by then, or been eaten up, as in the case of Methuselah, but the Congo still offered a wealth of God’s creatures to entertain us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the day a committee of men decided to murder the fledgling Congo, what do you suppose Mama Mwanza was doing? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I was worried about my mom, but wartime Congo was the opposite of fairy tales: The wilderness was the safe place, not the town, because hiding was the only way to survive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Asked one ordinary Congo afternoon what she'd done with her day, Hugh's mother answered that she and a fellow member of the Ladies' Club had visited a leper colony on the outskirts of Kinshasa. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Congo had national finals for sixth and twelfth grades. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z At last it is Independence Day, for Methuselah and the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He and another nun, named Sister E. R., drove Sister M. E. in a Land Rover to the town of Bumba, a sprawl of cinder blocks and wooden shacks that huddles beside the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anatole said the Congo people don’t like owls because an owl flies around at night and eats up the souls of dead people. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Man oh man, are we in for it now, was my thinking about the Congo from the instant we first set foot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There are hundreds of different tribes in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The nation’s entire nuclear arsenal was dependent on only two sources: a single rapidly depleting mine in the Belgian Congo and another in Canada, near the Arctic Circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For hundreds of years people in the Congo Valley spoke of this beautiful, strange beast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The school, John Williams School No. 5, was huge compared with my elementary school in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z This is what I carried out of the Congo on my crooked little back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Congo has some of the best, most fashionable tailors in the world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was among Congo’s most dangerous cities even in times of peace, and the UN had no contact whatsoever with the entire city of almost a million people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I think he must be prouder of the Congo than just about any place He ever made.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why would the businessmen take Congo’s diamonds away? And what are Americans doing down there anyhow? I thought the Congo belonged to Belgium. I mean before.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “One day, Sandra, you will become president of Congo,” Dad used to tell me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Growing up in Congo, being black was not an issue for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He swung the baby bonobo up into his arms and greeted me in Lingala, not the French that Congo’s educated classes use. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They say Congo is improving, but you can’t tell from the airport. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t go ashore in the villages we passed; if the villagers had anything to sell, they would run up to the Congo’s banks, offering it in outstretched arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Like the time there was a freak hailstorm in the Congo and the women took it as a sign that they should rule. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Buffalo descended, and the town of Bumba appeared, a rotting tropical port spread out along the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What I carried out of Congo on my crooked little back is a ferocious uncertainty about the worth of a life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve heard how they sharpened their teeth and stormed the invaders in northeastern Congo, feeding on nothing but rage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s one more thing to remember when I’m grown, to tell about the Congo: how the mango fruits hung way down on long, long stems like extension cords. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered my mom telling me that a big reason for the bonobos’ peaceful society was how plentiful food is south of the Congo River. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The United Nations had been in Congo since war broke out in the 1990s, and had reserved a frequency for emergency communications. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the camps in Mozambique, he’d played the game barefoot with a ball made from plastic bags, in friendly but fierce matches between boys from Burundi and Congo. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Since we were not considered citizens in Congo, we could not vote. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It all triggered when I told her I’d gotten engaged to a Senegalese guy I met at Emory; I guess she was hoping that I’d settle down with someone from Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Anatole explained it this way: Like a princess in a story, Congo was born too rich for her own good, and attracted attention far and wide from men who desire to rob her blind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents grew up in these towering mountains, the Hauts Plateaux, in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo called South Kivu. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Though I didn’t deserve it, I wanted to rise to heaven remembering something of beauty from the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When a country was as primed for civil war as Congo was, when it came apart, the pieces weren’t as heavy. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But the Congo is exactly the right shape and size, in relation to Europe and the Americas. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My whiteness could bar him outright from many possibilities, maybe even survival, in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a stunningly sunny day; Congo had entered its rainy season, with its dramatic showers followed by clean and invigorating sunshine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Wello complained, but I was secretly relieved; if there had been fuel, the rebels would have taken those barges for their own use, controlling the Congo or launching attacks on the riverside towns. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z My church is the Great Rift Valley that lies along the eastern boundary of Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During a quiet moment it struck me that Congo was an easier country to survive in than most during a time of war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I hold on to Ruth May while he and the rest of Congo secretly hold a national day of mourning for lost Independence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sudden quiet we could hear the great Congo River lapping up its banks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew there was great stuff about Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I can still recite the litany of efforts it took to push a husband and children alive and fed through each day in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Ironically, people back home in Congo had called us Rwandan, but here in Rwanda, people called us Congolese. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was all about how the U.S. ought to take better charge of the maverick Congo; the two photographs stopped my heart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen years after it all happened, I sat by my radio in Atlanta listening to Senator Church and the special committee hearings on the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Our neighbors are equally terrified of Mobutu’s soldiers and their opposition, the Simbas, whose reputation is stalking northern Congo like a lion itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu had met him a few times, an assistant professor of history who had lived in Congo as a child. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The announcer mentioned international sanctions against Zimbabwe in response to the government’s aid to Congo rebels. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Maybe when we first came to Congo I did, because we were all just hardly more than children then. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Generose pressed Play on the VCR, and the screen came to life with the blurry images of a Catholic choir from Congo, singing hymns outdoors against changing backdrops of mountains and green forests. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But once she understood there was no turning back, our mother went to laying out in the spare bedroom all the worldly things she thought we’d need in the Congo just to scrape by. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally it was thronged with boats — in a country with few paved roads, the Congo was the closest thing to an interstate. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I tried to remember the map of Congo hanging on the wall of the UN station. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In Congo I was one-half benduka the crooked walker, and one-half bënduka, the sleek bird that dipped in and out of the banks with a crazy ungrace that took your breath. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If his decision to keep us here in the Congo wasn’t right, then what else might he be wrong about? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All across the Congo on invisible radio waves flew the code words: The Rabbit has escaped. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Countries with higher per capita incomes than North Korea include Sudan, Congo, and Laos. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The mid-day bulletin had not mentioned any definite area, but it was probable that already the mouth of the Congo was a battlefield. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z That is where the last of the great African rain forests still stand—Cameroon and Gabon, Zaire and the Congo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1483 Diogo Cão erected a marble pillar surmounted by a cross at the mouth of what we now call the Congo River to mark the furthest limit of exploration southwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His little face was so like a human’s, and no one grew up in Congo without knowing what stomach cramps looked like. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. They thought he was a traitor to Congo and an ally of the West. That he’s a puppet to American mining companies.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They looked like regular Congo Boy Scouts to me, marching, except they didn’t have any shoes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was something about the way Patrice said “this time”; assassinations and coups were baggage the Democratic Republic of Congo had been lugging on its own for a long time. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He pronounced a hasty benediction: “Heavenly Father please make me a powerful instrument of Thy perfect will here in the Belgian Congo. Amen.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have been hoping you would finally get a nice Congo boy, but couldn’t you have found one that was better-looking?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We imagined them liberating Angola and marching right on up the Congo River to vaccinate us all! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If by some chance we came in too far north we’d reach the Congo River instead, and could follow that downstream. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It never mattered before; prior to Independence, hardly anyone gave a thought to the large idea of a geographical Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Two birthdays now I have had in the Congo, and I thought the first one was the worst there could be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Mornings in the Congo were so steamy you couldn’t see a thing but cloud come to earth, so you might as well be anywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After fifty years’ absence, movie theaters are back in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In Congo a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The field stretched along a highway that ran from Burundi to Congo, and cars whizzed by us as we lay in the dirt. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After Congo, Calista picked the reptile house, which was warm warm warm—so warm that the glass in front of the snakes and turtles was half steamed up. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z In all our time in the Congo I’d been awestruck by what the ladies could carry this way, but had never once tried it myself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And President Eisenhower was right then sending his orders to take over the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Did life go on in America when I was hiding from militias in Congo? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I stared out the window, wondering who wouldn’t want to leave the Congo before you could say Jack Robinson if they had half a chance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though the Congo is the second longest river in the world, its breadth is almost more impressive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Friends and relatives came and went all day long in this home, unannounced, just like our home in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And the area was dis-tinctive enough with its one remaining hut that I could track it down later, after I’d gotten out of Congo and come back after the conflict. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they knew I never really understood why all this money should go to a home for apes when people all over Congo were dying in poverty. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The Congo is so wide that it effectively splits the country in two. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z While my husband’s intentions crystallized as rock salt, and while I preoccupied myself with private survival, the Congo breathed behind the curtain of forest, preparing to roll over us like a river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what if it’s a huge river,” I asked him once—“like the Congo, which is much broader than the reach of any vine?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z During my childhood, Congo was the best place in the world because it was the only place in the world. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Leah says in Congo there’s only two ages of people: babies that have to be carried, and people that stand up and fend for themselves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Congo is such a huge river that as I got closer it felt like I was approaching the seashore. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Dedicated her life so fully, in fact, that when my dad’s work in Congo ended and he had to go back to the States, she’d stayed on and they’d divorced. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It is a dangerous thing, I now understand, to make mistakes with nommo in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had covered a lot of conflicts—including the Iran-Iraq war and the crises in Cambodia, Rwanda, and the Congo—and he had followed the plight of refugees in Sudan, Iran, India, and Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z So Mr. Patrice will be the Prime Minister of the Congo now and it won’t be the Belgian Congo anymore, it will be the Republic of Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he had been close to my mother in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Khrushchev was singing, “Bingo Bango Bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was seven years old, Hugh's family moved to the Congo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They came over to Africa for the fight and then crossed the river and toured around in French Congo, since the roads and everything are so much nicer in general over here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t risk a second to say good-bye; I crossed the abandoned fields in the rapidly diminishing light and was alone by the time the Congo five-minute twilight began. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z For that matter you can’t even go to the Congo; it’s Zaire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the bonobos were secured in the truck, it hit me: They had to fly north, then take the cages by dugout canoe up the Congo River until they reached the release site. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We should have been good sports and lit out of the Congo right then. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was secretly helped along by a net of supporters stretching wide across the Congo, from Léopoldville to our own village and far beyond. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “My father thinks the Congo is just lagging behind and he can help bring it up to snuff. Which is crazy. It’s like he’s trying to put rubber tires on a horse.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he rattles off all these names of people I can never keep straight: CIA Deputy Chief, Congo Station Chief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d traveled the Congo this way once or twice in my life, but more for fun when visiting village friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “If you left Congo, why did you come back?” he asked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As far as the actual day he flew me out of the Congo in his plane, it’s hard for me even to remember what I thought was going to happen next. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew she wanted it to be the Ministry of Environment that confiscated bonobos, in order to make it clear that it was the government of Congo taking peoples property, not her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I felt that somehow I belonged here, I really did, but I could have been in the Congo for how unfamiliar it felt. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lumumba was prime minister of Congo. Do you know where Congo is?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As they spread into the Congo Basin’s equatorial forest zone, cleared gardens, and increased in numbers, they began to engulf the Pygmy hunter-gatherers and compress them into the forest itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I don’t really know what they look like, but given how things grow in the Congo, that size seemed possible. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen years after Independence, in 1975, a group of Senators called the Church Committee took it upon themselves to look into the secret operations that had been brought to bear on the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The fresh feed included a ton of bananas, and the new cargo, a female Congo chimpanzee, part of Father’s wheeling and dealing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In the Belgian Congo and Uganda the results of heavy applications of DDT against an insect pest of the coffee bush were almost “catastrophic.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Back home in Congo, I avoided using the school bathrooms because they were unsanitary and often lacked toilet paper. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His family had left the Congo by this time and were living in Ethiopia. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Tomorrow she’ll be gone, and I’ll still be here, I thought to myself as we stood on our barge fastened to the bank of the Congo, watching history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z My plan from there was simple, if terrifying: Head up the Congo River to Mbandaka, and then skirt past the city to my mom’s release site. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Despite her prayers, the Congo was left in the hands of soulless, empty men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was the Congo, here was Japan, here was Albania, here was Cairo—snippets of the world replicated and sterilized, confined behind walls and fences like animal exhibits. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z All I want is to go home, and start scrubbing the deep-seated impurities of the Congo out of my skin. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Congo, police officers and military officers were basically the same—and they came when there was war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In Congo, it seems the land owns the people. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I could cut my way through the jungle and go around, that could take me days out of my way, and without the Congo River to follow, I was likely to lose my bearings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z From talking with the patients I’ve gotten passably fluent in Lingala, which is spoken throughout northern Congo, in Léopoldville, and along most of the navigable rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I was thrilled that after two months, Otto was finally getting better, and my happiness lapped over to Congo itself. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the six months since they began to plan their trip, the Congo has been swept by war. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, it’s a heavenly paradise in the Congo and sometimes I want to live here forever. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Manioc was common throughout Congo, and its starchy root kept millions from starvation. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I picked the Congo exhibit, because that one was my favorite. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Congo was a woman in shadows, dark-hearted, moving to a drumbeat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you see that, Béene? That is Congo. Not minerals and glittering rocks with no hearts, these things that are traded behind our backs. The Congo is us.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently Father saw this as a point in the Congo’s favor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to think of some other work animal for my parable, but the Congo has none. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Back home in Congo, my parents understood everything, and they taught me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Right where the banks of the Congo turned marshy and indistinct, a cluster of pirogues appeared. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “If so, I was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But now, I am an American.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “That is the relation of Belgium to her Congo,” he said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He claims he’s actually a very important figure in the Congo at this moment of history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Congo is a fine place to learn how to read the same book many times. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a bunch of men singing and blabbing in the Congo language and fixing a roof, that’s all it was. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime during my six years in the States, I began to hate the Democratic Republic of Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We had always been stateless—not citizens of Congo, not citizens of Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The French Congo and the newly independent Republic of Congo are separated by one mere river and about a million miles of contemporaneous modern thinking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ladies and gentlemen of the Congo,” he said, “who have fought for the independence won today, I salute you!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He likes to hunt— some killer instinct left over from his ancestors who ran around in loincloths in the Congo. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Lingala, animal is just the plural form of meat — which tells you a lot about the state of wildlife conservation in Congo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z So feel I. Living in the Congo shakes open the prison house of my disposition and lets all the wicked hoodoo Adahs run forth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So is it even a lady’s sweater, here in the Congo? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no one else but us at Congo, so we could watch the gorillas for as long as we wanted, without anybody or their baby pushing in front of us. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He claims he’s gotten back involved with the diamond business in the Congo and has many foreign partners, but you still have to remind him to take a bath on any given day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He organized a floating hospital ship and had it moored in the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 20 he telegraphed Exposition President William Baker that he was confident he could acquire as many Pygmies from the Congo as he wished, provided the king of Belgium consented. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z World Relief and the International Rescue Committee opened offices in Clarkston to better serve the newcomers, and resettled still more refugees—from war-ravaged African countries including Liberia, Congo, Burundi, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes you can start thinking the Congo is almost pretty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z What also did not lead to calm thoughts were rumors coming out of the jungle to the effect that the agent was wiping out whole villages upriver on the Congo. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, we were living as refugees, driven from our home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because we belonged to a minority tribe, the Banyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Congo River, being of a different temperament, drowned most of its conquerors outright. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I have only the haziest recollection of waving at my mother and sister in a rising cloud of diesel exhaust and mosquitoes as they began their slow, permanent exodus from the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the Congo has tried to slip out of her old flesh, to pretend it isn’t scarred. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We weren’t run well at all in the Congo. We were under the command of a British colonel.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A map of the Congo lies on the mahogany table between them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I read the page they’d folded back: “Soviet Plan Moves Forward in Congo.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Congo had been independent for fifty-one days. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “After what all I lived through in the Congo,” I cooed to Daniel, “I could take Brazzaville and keep right on smiling.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That is the story of Congo they are telling now in America: a tale of cannibals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo had issued no word on when—or if—he would be released. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Given time, legions of men are drawn into the game, both ebony and ivory: the Congo’s CIA station chief, the National Security Council, even the President of the United States. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I thanked President Obama for helping to resettle refugees from Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I thought of the boys back in Congo who were forced to serve as child soldiers, and the girls who were married off, never given a chance to finish high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z On September 14, the army took control of the momentarily independent Republic of Congo, and Lumumba was put under house arrest in Léopoldville, surrounded by Mobutu’s freshly purchased soldiers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually Mom named the bonobos after towns in Congo, but she liked his name, especially since it was easy for Lingala speakers to pronounce. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The ruling forces of Congo had been fighting wars for years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If a young couple had a relationship in Congo, there was an end goal—marriage. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I managed to tell her I was from Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Until that moment I’d always believed I could still go home and pretend the Congo never happened. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, Graziella is caring for forty-eight orphans in the Congo Republic in Central Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The white men mostly spoke of the glorious days of the previous king of Belgium, King Léopold, who first made the Congo into what it is today. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Axelroot did pretty well for himself as a pilot in the Congo, transporting perishable goods from the bush into the cities for retail sale, and he was also active in the diamond trade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The sanctuary was located on the former campus of a state school that had closed after it got shot up during one of Congo’s wars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If the world of white men had never touched the Congo at all? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They wish the woman good luck and ask if she comes from the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z From the very first moment I set foot in the Congo, I could see we were not in charge. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Surrounding us was a thick, wet, living stand of trees and tall grasses stretching all the way across Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The free Congo that so nearly came to pass is now going down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The vice president of Congo spoke, as did the president of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Back home in Congo, our clothes were tailored, and they fit beautifully. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the end, my lot was cast with the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He promptly left Congo—which has recently descended once again into civil war—and hopes to reunite with his family, either in the United States or in Europe. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes I call her Democratic Republic to tease myself, but I don’t think little Congo likes that very much. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Day one in the Congo, and here my brand-new tulip-tailored linen suit in Poison Green with square mother-of-pearl buttons was fixing to give up the goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know that’s not right. You say, ‘Mr. Damon, you’re lost in the Belgian Congo where you have been put under a spell. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The King of America wants a tall, thin man in the Congo to be dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know Congo. Here you don’t name babies until you know they’re going to survive.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z This time it was just Father and me in the airplane, plus Mr. Axelroot, and twenty pounds of dry goods and canned whole prunes the Underdowns couldn’t take with them when they fled the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He received a large sum for his service in the Congo, a decent nest egg you might say, but have I seen it? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For my last few days in Congo, at least. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If the word “Congo” makes people think of that big-lipped cannibal man in the cartoon, why, they’re just wrong about everything here from top to bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Never in my innocent childhood did I prepare for being in the Congo one dark night with ants tearing at my scalp. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They end up in war-torn Congo, escape from an orphanage with a tough, traumatised fugitive child soldier and push on to South Africa for the opening match. Africa United ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z The two other missionaries, from Ghana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who were not evacuated, have also died in recent days from the virus. World Health Organisation allows unlicensed Ebola drugs in west Africa 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z His mockery of myths about Africa continues in his pseudo-primitivist paintings studded with nails that resemble the rusty ones found in "fetish" sculptures from the Congo region. How Yinka Shonibare's sculpture park exhibition shoots to thrill 2013-03-03T21:59:01Z And the Congo itself: its flora and fauna, sounds and smells, language and art, its spirituality. Barbara Kingsolver on The Poisonwood Bible – Guardian book club 2013-05-11T07:31:38Z Naipaul ignored cold-war machinations in the Congo just as he would later scant the brutal rule of Iran's shah in exchange for broad musings on the innate defects of Islam. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Christopher Myers, co-director and designer: Mark Twain was interested in the Congo, and he understood the relationship between the oppression of Africans there and the oppression of Africans at home. At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The main figure in “The Act of Killing,” Anwar Congo, demonstrates in one disturbing rooftop scene how he garroted victims with a wire to avoid making a mess that would later smell. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z Republic of Congo The other Congo, Africa’s newest safari destination. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z One of the most breathtaking spots on earth, Virunga National Park, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, for decades has also been one of the most dangerous. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Gopnik gives the examples of Belgium’s genocide in the Congo and the Cold War exploits of the United States in Latin America, where “we were exporting not liberal democracy but brutal military rule.” Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z And jungle, with its revolutionary message and spiritual communion with bass frequencies, remains Congo Natty's mouthpiece of choice. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z Congo is irritated, and rants about his disdain for human rights. Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir 2013-06-05T15:36:08Z Vargas Llosa's next novel, The Dream of the Celt, is inspired by Roger Casement, the Anglo-Irish consul who exposed human rights abuses in Belgian-run Congo at the turn of the 20th century. Mario Vargas Llosa surprised and delighted by Nobel prize win 2010-10-07T17:47:00Z Panama nominated its ritual and festive expressions of the Congo culture, the Bahamas put in a bid for its strawcraft and Georgia wants the honor to go to its wrestling. Jamaica Seeks to Add Reggae to a Unesco Cultural Heritage List 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z They performed as the sun rose on Congo Square, an area near the French Quarter neighborhood where slaves once gathered on Sundays to play music. New Orleans concert marks International Jazz Day 2012-04-30T15:49:09Z Noir beautified these casualties – a romanticism obviously appealing to the likes of Congo. Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir 2013-06-05T15:36:08Z What does this exhibition including artists from, as Mr. Scala puts it, “the Congo to California” say about the current state of painting? ‘Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century’ Review: Trying to Corral the Uncorralable 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z NAIROBI, Kenya — Cindy McCain is teaming up with actor Ben Affleck to try to bring more attention to violence against women in Congo, as well as that country's upcoming presidential election. Cindy McCain in Congo to highlight violence 2011-07-21T14:12:09Z That process is already in use at City of Joy, a women’s center Ensler founded in Congo. Review | Eve Ensler waited decades for an apology from her abusive father. She finally wrote one herself. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z This week, she goes to the DR Congo to meet former child soldiers. Tonight's TV highlights: 2010-10-06T23:04:00Z Like a ritual sculpture from the Congo — an African nkisi nkondi, or traditional nail fetish — the assemblage is an ode to music as an inner life force, painful yet potent. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z “I needed someone with the knowledge of the artistic life of Congo.” Exploring a Century of Art From Congo 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Harris toured North America and Europe with that image and others she took in the Congo, giving presentations to thousands of people in an effort to turn popular opinion against King Leopold. The Long, Vital History of Bystander Recordings 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z In “The Act of Killing,” Anwar Congo and Herman Koto, who joined in the mass murder of suspected Communists and others in Indonesia the mid-1960s, gleefully recreate the scenes of their killings for the camera. Critic’s Notebook: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013-06-12T22:54:26Z AT the tip of an impossibly lush hill, perfectly perched at the mouth of Lake Kivu in eastern Congo, is one of the greatest hidden gems in all of Africa: the Orchids hotel. Impossible to Forget: Orchids Hotel, Congo 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z A mask of the Lega culture from the Democratic Republic of Congo, c. Look what happens when you interview artist and Instagram sensation Guadalupe Rosales via text image 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z There was a separate outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but it too has been contained. The 5 most toxic myths about Ebola, debunked 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z From the Congo to Calcutta and from comedy to the darker side of human nature, the shortlist for this year's Independent foreign fiction prize runs the gamut of genres and countries. Globetrotting shortlist for Independent foreign fiction prize 2010-04-16T09:44:00Z But it his infrared images from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that caused a stir last year. Photographer Richard Mosse to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale 2012-08-23T17:49:55Z What we know about Liberia, for the purposes of the film, is that it recently emerged from a long, unimaginably brutal civil war of the kind that Congo is still suffering. | 'Living in Emergency': Machete Wounds and Malaria in Global Trouble Spots 2010-06-03T22:08:00Z Later, he worked with King Leopold of Belgium to explore and seize the Congo and create the most inhuman of all 19th-century imperial projects. Henry Morton Stanley's statue will ensure imperial racism is not forgotten 2010-08-27T12:41:00Z Despite a U.N. presence in the country for 15 years, and a major peacekeeping operation in the country, a rebel group called the M23 has operated in eastern Congo, terrorizing the region. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z After more than a decade working in Africa in various capacities — he was appointed a British consul in 1892 — he started a formal investigation into forced labor in the Congo in 1895. In Ireland, Chasing the Ghost of the Rebel Roger Casement 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z At MOMA, black eggshells disfigure a copy of Le Soir reporting on the Congo; the etiolated potted palms at the entrance to the exhibition recall Belgium’s rapacity in central Africa. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The new foundation - the Eastern Congo Initiative - will support community-based, Congolese groups, said Affleck on the heels of his fifth trip to the country. Ben Affleck launches aid group for eastern Congo 2010-03-22T15:37:00Z Best actress went to 14-year-old Rachel Mwanza from the Democratic Republic of Congo, for her first ever film role in War Witch. Jail docu-drama wins Berlin award 2012-02-19T12:16:54Z Just a few years ago he fled the Democratic Republic of Congo, having escaped a training camp for child soldiers on farmland that had once belonged to his father. Ping Chong Delivers a New Set of Undesirable Elements Plays 2012-10-14T01:30:01Z My Congo novel is seen through a bunch of white Southern girls. A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z At school I thought diamonds came from vaults: now I've got gold and diamond mine concessions in Ghana, Uganda, Liberia, Kenya and the Congo, and I'm promoting a record for the Azerbaijan government. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z USA Today's Claudia Puig says, "The only redeeming feature about 'The Gunman' is its exotic locations," which include the Congo, London, Barcelona and Gibraltar. 'The Gunman': Sean Penn action flick is off target, reviews say 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Yet not only did they qualify for this year’s tournament, they advanced through the group phase, stunning Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo to reach the quarter-finals where they lost to Tunisia. The highs and lows of fans watching the Africa Cup of Nations 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Congo and his wife are taken as property of the Company of the Indies, the governing body of French Louisiana, rather than being sold to individual slave owners. Louisiana’s hidden history: The former slave who became an executioner 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z But by the mid-17th-century, Kongo territory roughly corresponding to modern Angola, Congo and the Congo Republic— had itself become a primary source of captives. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Aboard the ship that makes its way into the Congo, Marlow observes that the crew are “fine fellows … men one could work with.” Letters to the Editor 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z She spoke about Congo Square — the New Orleans site where, in the early 19th century, enslaved people were allowed to drum and dance, a place where African traditions were braided and sustained. She Wants to Heal the World Through Second Line 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The main character in the film, Anwar Congo, was the one of the most feared death squad leaders in the area around the city of Medan in Sumatra. Film reopens old, long-buried wounds in Indonesia 2013-02-27T05:35:36Z Army of God reports on the key players in the conflict including residents of the Congo, Hillary Clinton and international aid organizations. Joseph Kony graphic novel illustrates personal stories of violent campaign 2013-03-15T17:57:21Z Van Reybrouck chronicles the slave labor, murder, mutilation and exploitation of Congo’s copper, diamond and uranium riches under Belgium’s empire, and the repeated plundering of Congo since independence. 50 notable works of nonfiction The island of Idjwi in Congo likewise maintains a thriving “culture of peace” amid poverty and ethnic tensions, in spite of — or is it because of? — officials from Kinshasa barely being present. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The novel's premise that the journey up the Congo river is a journey into darkness has raised many debates about the racism in Conrad's text. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z A 19th-century Kongo carving of a seated woman cradling a child, made in what is now Congo, is a magnificent example of the type. Art Review: ?African Innovations? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-09-01T12:00:00Z The other was music from Ghana, Nigeria, Congo and Cameroon. Music Review: Creating an International Sound Without Compromising Their Roots 2011-08-08T22:15:02Z We liked out-of-the-way places; my research often took us to absurd locations like the Democratic Republic of Congo near rebel-held territory or old Khmer Rouge bases on the Thai-Cambodian border. How Doing Nothing Became the Ultimate Family Vacation 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Musicians represented a global palette of sounds: the Japanese samisen, African djembe and Congo drums, harp, saxophone, accordion and violin. Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z He also uses Lingala, one of the languages of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country that emerged from Belgian colonial rule in 1960. Rappers With African Roots Bridge a Hip-Hop Divide 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z But his status as a paragon of wholesome adventure is under threat, thanks to a court bid to ban one of his books, Tintin in the Congo, for its racist portrayals of Africans. Tintin: Heroic Boy Reporter or Sinister Racist? 2010-05-04T08:00:00Z I wanted to use a highly unstable infrared film technology as a way of thinking through the conflict in Congo. Photographer Richard Mosse to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale 2012-08-23T17:49:55Z This piece was also fed by stories of other women — from Congo, Chad, Syria, the former Yugoslavia. Making Dance Out of the Unspeakable 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z UN peacekeepers used helicopters to fly the apes from a battle zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo. UN flies to rescue of Congo gorillas 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Even at the time, the Belgian Congo shocked people. Henry Morton Stanley's statue will ensure imperial racism is not forgotten 2010-08-27T12:41:00Z The works on view, which include metalwork, sculpture and textiles, date from the 13th to 19th centuries, and cover various African regions, including Mali, Nigeria, Liberia and Congo, among others. Datebook: Kerry James Marshall at MOCA, L.A. in '92 and Mary Weatherford's brilliant abstractions 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Flowers and her band, first-time performers at the festival, opened Sunday at the Congo Square stage where the closing day's headliner, Al Green, would perform. Fledgling artist Erika Flowers plays NO Jazz Fest 2012-04-29T21:31:04Z Congo was by far the richest source of it in the world. Rich pickings 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z There are, after all, two countries called Congo, on opposite banks of the mighty Congo River. Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z And for something more recent there’s “Everfair” by Nisi Shawl, in which the people of the Congo acquire steampunk technology early on, therefore averting the colonial horrors of our timeline. Review | Ever wonder what might have been? Here are some scenarios, courtesy of science fiction 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “Dinozord” began as Linyekula’s response to the political turmoil in the Congo, which forced him into exile in France and elsewhere and resulted in the arrest and death of colleagues. The incomparable political art of Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Lovecraft-themed décor, Wilson excused herself for a moment to finish up at the Congo pinball machine. Barhop by ferry for a beer-filled weekend in Bremerton and Port Orchard 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Not from the people of Syria or South Sudan or the Congo.” My family came to the US as refugees, says George Clooney 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z In Congo, he says, you never know what’s going to happen next. Impossible to Forget: Orchids Hotel, Congo 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z The result is one of my favourite parts of Congo Square. Heat combo: When Wynton Marsalis met Yacub Addy 2012-07-06T21:55:21Z Later in the film and back on that rooftop, Congo is a quite different figure. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z At the end of the tour, I asked Reynders what responsibility the Belgians bear for the fact that the Democratic Republic of Congo has only a shaky peace after numerous years of civil war. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Balu’s painting reckons with the powerful influence of the West on modern-day life in Congo. With Kuba Kings and Kehinde, a Painter Rises Above the Fray 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z "There's a famous phrase in Congo, that it's the world's richest country with the poorest people, with foreign forces taking stuff and the result being bad for Congolese people," von Einsiedel said. Netflix's 'Virunga' uncovers Congo's fight to protect resources 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The virus made its traumatic appearance at different times across the globe – perhaps as early as 1920 in what is now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In The Rings of Saturn, he leaps from Suffolk to slavery in the Belgian Congo, while touching on the lugubrious history of herring fishing and the dismal lives of silkworms. WG Sebald: Darkness on the edge of Anglia 2011-01-25T21:31:00Z In his Facebook posting, Affleck says he would continue working with the Eastern Congo Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps direct humanitarian aid to the war-torn region, and for other causes. Ben Affleck won't run for US Senate in Mass. 2012-12-25T23:16:03Z Affleck explained how the organization he founded, Eastern Congo Initiative, played a role in diminishing child mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo, emphasizing the importance of supporting Congolese efforts within their own communities. Clinton, Affleck seek to lower child death rates 2012-06-14T19:22:11Z “The amnesia is linked to the money the Belgians made in Congo,” Robert said. As protests grow, Belgium faces its racist colonial past 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z There are similarities with bands in present-day Kinshasa that use homemade instruments to create trance music, and as in the Congo, this is a style that doubtless sounds best live. Various: Rara in Haiti 2010-07-08T21:55:00Z Finally, after photographing genocidal killings in Rwanda and the Congo in the 1990s, Salgado had enough and began to deeply question his work as a social photographer. 'Salt of the Earth' captures photographer Sebastiao Salgado 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria suffer more than 40% of all malaria deaths. Malaria-free Sri Lanka may mark beginning of end for deadly disease 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z A making-of featurette about the difficulties of filming the documentary “This Is Congo” might be as harrowing as the movie itself. Review: In ‘This Is Congo,’ Four Lives Shaken by Conflict 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z They included two pieces from Africa Jazz, which evolved after considerable work into "Ring Shout" and "Place Congo". Heat combo: When Wynton Marsalis met Yacub Addy 2012-07-06T21:55:21Z The prize, Susan Williams explains in “Spies in the Congo”, was uranium. Rich pickings 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “The Congo threw me into the crisis of the world, and these two experiences merged as I faced what I felt sure was the beginning of the end.” Review: Eve Ensler Goes Deep ‘In the Body of the World’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z She’s also an ambassador for Greenpeace: in 2010 she went to the Congo to make a series of films about the destruction of the rainforests by logging companies. Marion Cotillard: ‘Before my family, everything was dedicated to the character’ 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z “Take me to the Congo River where my heart lies,” she sings, at first as a plea and later, edging toward hysteria. Dance Review: Faustin Linyekula and Dean Moss at MoMA 2012-10-27T07:20:07Z It will also be hard to be a warlord in eastern Congo if warlords are touchy about negative publicity. Books of The Times: ‘The New Digital Age,’ by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen 2013-04-25T22:05:35Z But not entirely: Affleck was in Washington D.C. this week to raise awareness for something else he holds dear - his Eastern Congo Initiative to reduce the child mortality rate in the region. Ben Affleck glad to be family man, not tab target 2012-06-22T16:46:05Z Mr. Harrison also holds the title of big chief of the Congo Square Nation, an African-American cultural group in New Orleans. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Their habitat falls inside national parks in parts of Rwanda, Uganda and Congo. Rare conservation win as mountain gorilla population slowly grows 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The only memorable part of “Tintin in the Congo” is a scene in which Tintin hunts a rhinoceros by blowing it up with dynamite. Riff: How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids 2012-06-16T04:00:05Z Esoteric knowledge is a prominent undercurrent throughout the show, nowhere more beautifully — or mysteriously — expressed than in a Lega mask from the former Congo. At LACMA, a don't-miss African art exhibition full of mystery and beauty 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z In Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sundays are when most people dress up for church. Style in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Saturday; Congo and gorillas in the wild, 1 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-02-21T01:58:56Z He was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and raised in Israel, where he emigrated with his parents and six siblings in 2002. In Miami Beach, Off the Beaten Track, a Gallery District Beckons 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Ruined, which opens at the Almeida next week, was originally intended as an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage by way of Congo. Lynn Nottage: a bar, a brothel and Brecht 2010-04-20T21:00:00Z Sammy Baloji, from Congo, does so in digital photographs that merge images of now abandoned copper mines with vintage pictures of black miners who once worked them under European supervision. Art Review: From Africa, Nature as Victim and Muse 2011-06-09T21:15:51Z They will be joined by the garage-rock guitar hero Kid Congo Powers, whose band the Cramps was the soundtrack to more than a few of the Miser’s teenage indiscretions. Weekend Miser: ‘Bound for Glory’ to be Screened on Coney Island 2012-07-12T20:03:23Z The Congolese-Belgian photographer Léonard Pongo examined Congo’s natural history in landscapes made in remote parts of the country, using close shots or diffuse light to imbue them with mystical energy. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Ebola fever was first detected by doctors in the 1970s in villages along the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is usually fatal in humans. Ebola: the solution may be in sight 2011-08-27T23:06:58Z The concept for this British series may sound something like an inverted “Lost”: A woman’s husband’s plane goes down over the Democratic Republic of Congo, and she thinks that he’s gone forever. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ and ‘The Widow’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It opens with a memorable, beautifully written chapter about the "talking drums" of the Congo and explains how a drum with just two tones was used to communicate complex information quickly over large distances. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z Northern white rhinos once roamed parts of Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Congo and the Central African Republic. The last male northern white rhino has died 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Many Latin American regions rival the likes of Madagascar, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo in terms of biodiversity. Recall of the wild: South America's new era of nature-led tourism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Among them are countries with massive forests, including Brazil, China, Colombia, Congo, Indonesia, Russia and the United States. At COP26, world leaders promise to stop cutting down forests 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Her Broadway musical debut, singing “Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo” in a shoulder- and midriff-baring jungle print with headdress, catches New York’s eye but embarrasses her mother. Shut Up and Drink Your Champagne: The Impossible Life of the Impossible Elaine Stritch 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z A historical novel about Roger Casement, defender of indigenous rights in the Congo and the Amazon, covert homosexual and eventual martyr to the cause of Irish independence. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z A few years before, in 1885, the kingdom had been bought by a group of European investors, headed by the Belgian King Leopold II and organized as the Congo Free State. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Gryseels said that in some cases it is better to first talk about long-term loans, or helping Congo build its own museums and staff to conserve objects. Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Right down to that seminal moment in Congo Square where the pentatonic scale and West African rhythm met European instrumentation and arrangement. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z There's a giant colonial Ponzi scheme based upon the exploitation of labourers in Greenland and shareholders in Europe that drinks from the same poisonous well as Heart of Darkness: King Leopold's scheming in the Congo. Joseph Conrad's science fiction novel 2011-01-14T10:19:56Z Sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war in several conflicts, including the civil war in Syria, the Bosnian war and battles in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jolie praises G-8 action against sexual violence 2013-04-11T12:35:13Z “This production does not include a single vestige of the specific war in the Congo,” Ms. Pinkins said. Star of ‘Mother Courage’ Quits in Creative Dispute 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Beginning in the 1700s, slaves and free people of color gathered in Congo Square in Armstrong Park on Sundays to trade goods and play music. Congo Square rhythms fest kicks off March 23 2013-03-16T15:14:11Z African lions are native to the southern Sahara Desert down to southern Africa, excluding the Congo rain forest region. Aging lion euthanized at Lincoln Park Zoo 2012-02-01T18:33:00Z Ben Affleck made his way back to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify on behalf of Eastern Congo in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Ben Affleck back on Capitol Hill, offers Congo progress report 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “Nothing has changed. And then you start thinking like, ok, do the people of Congo matter to anyone? Do the women of Congo matter to anyone?” City of Joy: the powerful Netflix documentary where 'everything is about love' 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Kalukango gives a harrowing recitation of "A Teenage Girl's Guide to Surviving Sex Slavery" from the Congo. Review: In Ensler's play, girls just wanna be free 2012-11-13T02:06:08Z Mr. Ogbuagu wasn’t aware of any board game scene in the Democratic Republic of Congo and none of the tens of thousands of active users on BoardGameGeek say they are from the country. Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Survivors of Horrors, and Their Journey There’s a multipage chronology of Congolese history spanning the 1200s to the present day in the program for “Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo.” Theater Review: ‘Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo,’ at La MaMa 2012-10-19T23:47:45Z Some of the proceeds are already allocated for a hospital that Dr. Rau founded in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ArtsBeat: Fragonard Portrait Draws $28 Million at London Auction for Unicef 2013-12-05T22:18:54Z THE world knows little about the Republic of Congo, and this travelogue-cum-memoir barely changes that. Ties that bind 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z "It's not rocket science," said David Heymann, who was part of the team that first identified the virus near the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola river in 1976. Thankless, dangerous – the task of the Ebola burial boys in Sierra Leone 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z He has reported from the Congo, Libya, Lebanon, Colombia, China and throughout the U.S. Greek tragedy: Austerity and addiction 2012-06-26T14:36:00Z He was on his way to Congo to do fieldwork with bonobos, his other species of focus. Dog Feats Reach New Heights 2014-04-17T20:22:46Z Chatty Brit explorers regret discovering a modern-day Lost World in the Congo in this low-budget cross between Monsters and Jurassic Park. This week's new films 2012-08-10T23:05:23Z “I’m sure they exist,” Mr. Magnin said of female artists in Congo. Exploring a Century of Art From Congo 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z He was a real person, an African-American who went to the Congo and exposed what King Leopold was doing. Alexander Skarsgard, of Sound Mind and Body to Play Tarzan 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z His drawings for the 1931 adventure “Tintin in the Congo” were so racist that he later redrew them, and he also had to redo a later book, “The Shooting Star,” because it was anti-Semitic. Tintin Is a New Breed of Comic-Book Hero for Most Americans 2012-01-02T20:37:06Z Five are from South Sudan, two from Syria, two from the Democratic Republic of Congo and one from Ethiopia. Refugee team mural unveiled in Rio 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Tune in to “Rescued Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane Goodall” on CuriosityStream, available on TV, desktop and mobile devices. New this week: ‘Space Jam’ sequel and a new ‘Cinderella’ 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z For Diangienda, however, performing western classical music on the banks of the Congo river has nothing to do with turning his back on his own African culture. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z Jack Mulele, who is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, created this image of the Dalai Lama by sticking newspaper on canvas and painting over it in oils. Freedom2014: Your art and paintings 2014-03-20T00:41:55Z You spent your adolescence in Berlin where your father was a Congolese diplomat, and then you travelled around Congo a great deal. Jupiter Bokondji: 'The cultural riches of Congo are immense' 2012-08-25T23:08:00Z It chronicles the first quarter-century of Everfair, an imagined utopia founded in the late 19th century in what was then the Belgian Congo. ‘Everfair’: a fantastical utopia amid King Leopold’s hell 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The African Dream is the diary of his stint in the Congo in 1965. Reading Che Guevara in his own words 2010-10-12T08:37:00Z He was on his way to Congo to do fieldwork with Bonobo monkeys, his other species of focus. Dog Feats Reach New Heights 2014-04-11T22:23:16Z "When I was dealing with the book, I was focused solely on the particular events of the Congo, rather than colonialism in general," she said. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness published as a graphic novel 2010-08-31T14:54:00Z The first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was held in 1970 in Beauregard Square, previously and afterward known as Congo Square, where African drumming and dancing had persisted through the era of slavery. Jazz Fest at 50: The Stubbornness and Joy of New Orleans 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z More than two-thirds of the world’s reserves are found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has set off a frantic, and exploitative, effort to mine it. 10 New Books Coming in January 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z "Now in Congo we have a strong man not strong institutions. We are here to see if Obama will keep his word," he said. Barack Obama pushes for 'global effort' to combat spread of Ebola 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z In his book, Mr. Nelson, an actor and the former managing director of the Chicago-based Congo Square Theater Company, offers guidance on how to build a sustainable ensemble from the ground up. ArtsBeat: Q. & A.: How to Start Your Own Theater Company 2011-07-06T11:00:28Z There’s not much pro forma about “They Drink It in the Congo,” the Adam Brace play at the Almeida Theater through Oct. Review: ‘The Entertainer,’ ‘Unfaithful’ and ‘They Drink It in the Congo’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z There have also been cases reported -- with 43 dead as of last week -- in the Democratic Republic of Congo, though those are said to be unrelated to the larger outbreak. Chris Brown, Ebola truther? The singer has a theory about the disease 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Congo and his allies know what real brutality looks like, and they add nightmarish detail to simulations. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z He convinced former death squad members, including his primary subject, Anwar Congo, to re-enact some of their more gruesome killings in the swaggering style of the hard-core gangster films they revere. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Visitors to the zoo will be asked to choose their favorite from among three traditional Lingala names, the language in the region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is home to the species. Bashful baby bonobo born in Belgium 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z It opened in a stately house overlooking the Congo river, built for Charles de Gaulle's exile from Nazi-occupied Paris, when equatorial Africa was the heart of free France. Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou – review 2013-06-29T07:00:20Z We learn about the progress of Botswana and the challenges facing the Democratic Republic of Congo, but we learn little about Hillary Clinton.: Book Review Podcast: Hillary Rodham Clinton's 'Hard Choices' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z This is plainly not the Belgian Congo of Conrad’s story. New on DVD: ‘Ashanti’ and ‘Wake in Fright’ 2013-01-12T20:00:00Z In her book, published last month, Addario recounts her experiences documenting the past decade of global war and strife in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Congo. Steven Spielberg to direct Jennifer Lawrence as war photographer 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Onstage a large screen offers detailed maps and dates about the Democratic Republic of Congo and its dismal past. Theater Review: ‘Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo,’ at La MaMa 2012-10-19T23:47:45Z Staring down over Kinshasa, in Congo, and seeing “shockingly few” lights, he observes: “The world remains unequal, in light as in almost everything else.” Review: Mark Vanhoenacker’s ‘Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot’ on Joy of Flight 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z And now Congo Natty, one of jungle's originators, is back with an album that reanimates the nihilistic, fiercely urban and socially conscious roots of the sound. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z State Department officials have described the situation in Congo as the most volatile in Africa. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z Atrocities have also been particularly widespread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and the Darfur region of Sudan. Angelina Jolie backs UK fight against rape in war zones 2012-05-29T11:36:14Z He puts a premium on the show's artistic elements, depicting offbeat destinations like Detroit or the Congo with cinematic flourish. In 'Parts Unknown,' Anthony Bourdain is not a man on a mission 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z By contrast “The Act of Killing” zooms in on Anwar Congo, a leader of the death squads responsible for the killings. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Leopold ruled Congo as a fiefdom, forcing many of its people into slavery to extract resources for his personal profit. As protests grow, Belgium faces its racist colonial past 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z I never felt I was exclusively an immigrant in America, or France, or the Congo. HBO's doc "Exterminate All the Brutes" asks: "When was American great — and who was it great for?" 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z As a movie fan, Mr. Oppenheimer said, Mr. Congo “understands the significance” of the Oscars. The Carpetbagger: ‘Act of Killing’ Director Says He Is Not Safe in Indonesia 2014-02-18T18:03:23Z People often move to the area as part of the military, as new immigrants or as refugees — many from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Cuba, Iraq and Bhutan. Where Breaking the Ramadan Fast Includes Caribou 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Of all the terrible things done throughout history in the name of civilisation, the Congo Free State ranks with the worst. Lumumba fights its corner as a corrective to imperialism 2012-06-14T13:25:47Z There are no mountains south of the Congo River, so no gorillas live there, and bonobos have the food supply all to themselves. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Soon this resulting makeshift family is planning a benefit dance show for an animal Elias adores, the okapis, an endangered species related to the giraffe and endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “To grow up as a child in Congo, according to God’s will, is to grow up in paradise,” he says, in beautiful Congolese-inflected French. “This Is Congo” and the Ongoing Despair in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z One example is in a village in South Kivu province in Congo. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z And on Saturday, she returned to the Congo Square Stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where her audiences have grown since her first appearance five years ago. New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia back at Jazz Fest, faces bigger audience that 1st appearance five years ago 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The show sets paintings, photographs and installations by 16 artists from Congo against works by 40 Japanese artists. Special Report: Museums: Juxtaposing Works From Congo and Japan 2011-03-22T13:21:25Z He took award-winning pictures in Congo, Iraq and Gaza. How men recover from war 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z So far, the organization says it has destroyed more than 18,000 assault rifles in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jewelry Designed to Disarm 2012-11-27T15:59:55Z It is the place where Simaro lived when he was in Congo. The Death of Simaro Lutumba Closes a Chapter of Congolese Music 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z In 2008, when she was 14, Ms. Sebisaho left Bukavu, a city in the eastern part of Congo, and was granted asylum in the United States, citing her homeland’s decades of civil war. Pop-Up Dinners That Share a Culture, Course by Course 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It primarily looks at “Swahililand”: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and the parts of Congo, Malawi and Sudan, where the language is spoken, but cannot resist ranging farther afield. All the world was his stage 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z There are also now rooms that allow Belgium’s African community to tell its story, as well as others devoted to colonialism’s legacy in Congo and Rwanda, from its impact on natural resources to climate change. Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The film includes a recent clip from a local TV talk show in which a smiling female host enthusiastically introduces Congo, hailing him for developing a “new, more efficient system for exterminating communists.” Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z Despite the Code Noir, which was updated in 1724 to further limit the influence of Africans in the colony, the Council eyed Louis Congo. Louisiana’s hidden history: The former slave who became an executioner 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The five-part docuseries delves into Goodall’s extraordinary efforts to rehabilitate chimps saved from illegal wildlife trafficking through the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in the Republic of the Congo. New this week: ‘Space Jam’ sequel and a new ‘Cinderella’ 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z And a remarkable contemporary artist collective from the Democratic Republic of Congo is making its New York debut at an alternative space in Queens. Review: African Art in a Game of Catch-Up 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Then Esther, unexpectedly, takes my notebook and painstakingly writes down her home address in Congo. Asylum life 2011-08-13T23:05:05Z He spent two years in the Peace Corps in the 1970s teaching agriculture in what is now Congo before returning to his native Ohio and working in a winery. Jim Law of Linden Vineyards: The Virginia wine industry's oracle marks 30 years The pavilion is located near Congo Square, the stage named after the area of New Orleans where slaves once gathered on Sundays to play music and celebrate their culture. Mardi Gras Indians on display at Jazz Fest 2012-05-04T15:13:40Z The initiative, launched days before US president Barack Obama visits Africa, will probe the financing of conflicts from northeast to central Africa, including Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Sudan and South Sudan. George Clooney seeks to expose those who fund and profit from wars in Africa 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The figure stands before an image of a lynching and atop a washboard bearing a fragment of a poem by Langston Hughes: “I’ve been a victim: The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.” Betye Saar's gun-totin' mammies turn stereotype into power at the Craft & Folk Art Museum 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Whether in Afghanistan, Congo or Kosovo, she was struck by the sameness of her world. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Similarly, the Mangaaka figures were considered so effective that colonial military powers deliberately targeted them as they sought to control Congo. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The partners acquired AK-47s that the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo had confiscated from its North Kivu Province. Converting AK-47s Into Jewelry 2011-11-30T23:00:58Z The perceived inaccessibility of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with its extreme poverty, ongoing conflicts, corruption and lack of basic public facilities, provides a barrier to musical tourists. Congo, where rumba meets r'n'b 2011-03-22T18:51:50Z The showcase figure here is a male ancestral figure from the Hemba tribe of Niembo in the Congo, carved in dark wood with a patina. 9 Rarities Appearing at a New York Art Fair’s Debut 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Though the film captures moments of regret, Congo and his cohorts boast proudly of their past. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z On the day I visited, Yannos Majestikos, 31, a sculptor and performance artist who grew up in and studied interior architectural design in Congo, was practicing his one-man show. A Paris Colony for Exiled Artists Needs a New Home 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z I mainly work as a filmmaker in African countries and I’d been interested for a while in telling a story about Congo that wasn’t the usual story of conflict and sexual violence. War and Gorillas and Other Hazards of Documentary Filmmaking 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z He is using some of the same ideas for a school under construction in Congo, also a pro-bono project. Prot?g?s Find Fame With Madonna and Museums 2010-05-27T18:06:00Z He kept his feet in Congo, however—as was apparent, in 2003, when he was arrested in Paris, and briefly jailed, for smuggling dozens of Congolese into Europe as bogus members of his entourage. The king of the rumba 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The women who work alongside Ms. Furie and Ms. Miriam at Bloodroot are immigrants from Brazil, Congo, Haiti and Mexico, and each helps make the menu what it is: an international miscellany. Mixing Food and Feminism, Bloodroot Is 40 and Still Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z “I see snow for the first time,” says Emmanuel, who fled the violence of Congo only to spend 12 years in a camp in Uganda before arriving in Syracuse. Theater Review: ‘Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo,’ at La MaMa 2012-10-19T23:47:45Z This show, organized with Congo Basin Art History Research Center in Brussels, comprises more than 100 of them, along with field footage, maps and musical instruments. Art Fall Preview: Over 100 Not-to-Miss Shows From East Coast to West 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z At a funeral in the Republic of Congo, mourners thrust their arms toward the coffin, wailing—embodying grief. Alex Majoli’s “SKĒNĒ”: The World as a Photojournalist’s Stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Vintage prints from the Congo were mixed with faded prairie patterns, while solid jacquard weaves played off against filmy fabrics. Next Summer? Tough vs. Tender 2012-09-09T17:05:31Z Le Carré mentions that he made only a brief research trip to the eastern Congo, but he is careful and his settings ring true. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z Her father, a soldier, died during civil warfare in Congo when she was 6 years old. Tshala Muana, Congolese Singer With Danceable Messages, Dies at 64 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z There have been other blunders, like her disastrous 2016 memoir, “In Congo’s Shadow: One Girl’s Perilous Journey to the Heart of Africa.” Louise Linton Has Made a Movie 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z “Congo still represents the total possibility of life on Earth,” Mr. Pongo said, adding that human depredation was less likely to kill the environment than to backfire on our species. On the Frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial Makes Art From Obstacles 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Later that summer, I traveled to Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, which by most estimates is among the poorest countries in the world, despite vast natural resources. T Magazine: Expatriot Games 2011-03-11T17:02:22Z The eight-minute film allows viewers to experience what it is like to work as a park ranger trying to save elephants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hillary Clinton makes surprise appearance at New York film panel 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Three Men in a Boatby Jerome K Jerome But this is not Heart of Darkness, and the river is not the Congo. Summer journeys: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome 2013-07-16T15:52:40Z In antebellum New Orleans, Congo Square was where people of African heritage, free and enslaved, were allowed to gather Sunday afternoons. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Tribal artifacts from across sub-Saharan Africa include masks from Kenya, spears from the Congo and many items from Namibia's ethnic population. 2010-01-07T14:30:00Z I can disappear down a rathole of books on, say, the history of the Congo or special operations in Southeast Asia for years. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z "Tommy's Congo" has a funny rhythm to it, one that seems to limp sideways through the measures before finding a West African-suggestive groove. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z His songs urge listeners to reform and rebuild Congo while they decry the legacy from his parents’ generation of kleptocracy, inequality and factionalism. Jupiter & Okwess Turn Congo Turbulence Into Ferocious Grooves 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z There are many more – from Mabuto in the Congo to Charles Taylor in Liberia, indicted at the Hague last month for crimes against humanity. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z Now despite Ebola outbreaks in nearby Congo, the biggest threat to the growing gorilla population is gorilla-on-gorilla conflict — a situation mitigated by the national park’s expansion. In Rwanda, mountain gorilla treks spur country’s renewal effort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z That the show also may make you want to do something, anything, to help women violently subjugated in Congo and elsewhere is Nottage's intent. Review: 'Ruined' is an intimate glimpse into a war-torn nation's women and warriors 2010-07-12T23:42:00Z As a result, he said, he had built up gold and diamond mine concessions in Ghana, Uganda, Liberia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Smiley Culture obituary 2011-03-15T22:36:02Z But Majoli and Pellegrin’s Congo is the other one, the Republic of Congo, the former French colony, whose capital is Brazzaville. Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z They're a group of paraplegics who live in the slums of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sweet music 2011-03-16T09:11:08Z Kagame also pledged to continue cooperating with his nation's former sworn enemy, Congo. Rwanda president takes stage at Tribeca Film Fest 2010-04-27T11:23:00Z The opening film, “Kinshasa Symphony,” is the story of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s only symphony orchestra. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z Mabanckou writes what resembles memoir while taking the liberties of fiction: in many respects, this is his own 1970s childhood in what was then the People's Republic of Congo. Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty by Alain Mabanckou – review 2013-06-29T07:00:20Z But one research goal eluded me: I needed to go back to the region of central Congo where I'd lived as a child. Barbara Kingsolver on The Poisonwood Bible – Guardian book club 2013-05-11T07:31:38Z In a small town an hour outside of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2015, she persuaded a man and woman to pose nude for her in a luxuriantly green setting. Deana Lawson Reveals Hidden Grandeur in Her Uncanny Portraits 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z However, he added, he was "really happy being involved from the outside in government", having recently testified before the House Armed Services Committee on the conflict in Congo. Ben Affleck rules out Senate role 2012-12-27T09:53:01Z In Belgium, protesters burned and vandalized statues of King Leopold II, who brutally colonized the Congo. Controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down. Fixing the world that built them is harder. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z This means that the devastation the medical volunteers find in Liberia is leavened by hope, and that the superior facilities that seem to exist in Congo are under constant threat of violence. | 'Living in Emergency': Machete Wounds and Malaria in Global Trouble Spots 2010-06-03T22:08:00Z You feel a kind of complicity – knowing he had these poor actors trapped in the Belgian Congo. Anjelica Huston: My father John's wildest shoot 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z Carved in the mid-19th century in the now border region of southern Sudan and Congo, it travelled north with the slave trade to Khartoum where it was carved with Islamic designs. Let each of us write our own history in 100 objects 2010-12-26T19:00:00Z In 2015, he attracted attention for a project that included the staging of a mock criminal court in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to ask if the mining industry was complicit in massacres there. Is Milo Rau Really the Most Controversial Director in Theater? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The African forest elephants — smaller in size — mostly occupy the tropical forests of West and Central Africa, with the largest remaining populations found in Gabon and Congo Republic. Separating elephant species shows they are closer to extinction than scientists thought 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z They are from the Democratic Republic of Congo but were strangers until they met, for the first time, in this room. Asylum life 2011-08-13T23:05:05Z Cases have been reported only in the Equateur Province, but travelers should keep abreast of reports in the event that it spreads further in Congo. Tips for traveling to Africa in the age of Ebola He is known for the work he made in the Democratic Republic of the Congo using Kodak Aerochrome infrared film, which records light from parts of the spectrum imperceptible to the human eye. Richard Mosse’s “Heat Maps”: A Military-Grade Camera Repurposed on the Migrant Trail 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z She stands at regular intervals and launches into a list of menopausal woes that includes having three heart attacks a day, “and my skin thinks it’s in the Congo. Otherwise I’m fine!” TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z But he also faces secession by the mineral-rich province of Katanga, intervention by Belgian troops and the collapse of his dream of a united Congo. A Season in the Congo – review 2013-07-17T12:13:27Z A member of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tutsi minority, Dogon fled the 1990s genocide as a child. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z For all its narrative of blood and fire and Old Testament justice, reggae needed a heavenly choir, and that, assuredly, was the Congos. Burt Bacharach, Leo Blanco, the Congos: this week's new live music 2013-06-22T05:00:17Z The black-and-white photos were filled with blood, with cigarettes dangling from lips and with rattled, unshaven young men who appeared to be on a mission up the Congo. Marco Pierre White’s ‘White Heat’: A Game-Changer, Revisited 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The family also hunts together, stalking moose on horseback in the Canadian Rockies, or the elusive Bongo, a species of antelope, on journeys down the Congo River with Pygmy guides. Stefano Ricci, Clothier to the 0.001 Percent 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Her father was a doctor who worked in communities with scant health care, in the American South or on forays to the Congo, St Lucia and Newfoundland. A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Then there’s Marie Claire, who escaped the war in Congo only to be greeted in Zambia by screams of “Go back to your country.” Reframing Refugee Children’s Stories 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Congo Natty is Michael West, who first became widely known as Rebel MC, an unlikely late-80s phenomenon that took UK hip-hop into suburban living rooms. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z The impetus for Africa United came from Eric Kabera, a Rwandan raised in a refugee camp in Congo, who has made himself a driving force in developing east African film. Africa United reveals the other side of a continent 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z Most of her customers are in Rwanda, including the capital Kigali, as well as in Mozambique and Democratic Republic of Congo, she said. Rwandan entrepreneur woos drinkers with beetroot wine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z "Mission Congo" examines televangelist Pat Robertson's efforts to raise funds in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide through his Operation Blessing organization. Toronto film fest documentaries embrace the news feature 2013-09-10T18:40:02Z The group, which was founded in 2010, says it is the first U.S. organization to focus solely on aiding eastern Congo. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z An honoree from last year, Denis Mukwege, was coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo “until he had to cancel at the last minute because one of his colleagues was assassinated,” she added. John Legend, Mia Farrow and Ryan Reynolds at Time 100 Gala 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z A veteran journalist whose previous books include "King Leopold's Ghost," about Belgium's brutal colonial rule in the Congo, Hochschild well knows a cardinal rule of the trade: Tell your story through people. Narrative history of WWI focuses on war resisters 2011-05-02T11:11:09Z The first big budget dinosaur film to use life size animatronics, it tells the tale of sauropods that are discovered alive and well in the Congo basin. Dinosaurs on film – fun, fiction and failures 2013-05-16T16:12:00Z In general, one of the advantages I have going into a place like Congo or Sudan is that I'm treated as a Martian. 2010-02-17T09:00:00Z “They want to keep going on so they can just plunder Congo with no witnesses.” City of Joy: the powerful Netflix documentary where 'everything is about love' 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z She noted that Congo Square in New Orleans was once the heart of the slave market and where people would celebrate Mardi Gras. For Teresita Fernández, Personal Is Political 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Methusella and Solomon, teenage boys from the Democratic Republic of Congo, were driven out of Goma with their family. At a Public School in Denver, Refugee Children Find Hope and Frustration 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z One of the anthology’s shorter stories, “Therapeutic Perambulation,” is about walking across the northern region of the Republic of Congo. How Tim Cahill’s ‘Pass the Butterworms’ launched my travel writing career 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z She has been in first-rate movies like “Mystic River,” “You Can Count on Me” and “The Savages” and stinkers like “Congo,” but even that clunker was not a waste. 2010-01-22T04:01:00Z I posited last year that Congo is chock full of natural resources, resources China could reasonably seek after to gain economic footing. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z According to historian Freddi Williams Evans’ book “Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans,” Congo Square was codified by an 1817 city ordinance that restricted drumming and African dances to a single spot. “It’s not just a party, it’s our life”: Jazz musicians led the way back to the city after Katrina — but what is this “new” New Orleans? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z So, too, did his work exposing the rapacious practices of the Force Publique in the Belgian Congo and of rubber barons in the Peruvian Amazon. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z Cicadas are consumed in many countries, from Mexico to Thailand to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Cicadas Are Here. For the Chef Bun Lai, They’re on the Menu. 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Montreal filmmaker Kim Nguyen shot "War Witch" in the Congo, where his young lead, Rachel Mwanza, was previously living on the streets. 'War Witch,' 'Una Noche' win top honors at Tribeca 2012-04-27T02:46:04Z Earlier Saturday, she had a sparse group in the field fronting Congo Square on their feet, waving their arms, cheering and dancing as she performed an eclectic show that included rap, poetry and singing. Latin star Rubio marks Cinco de Mayo at Jazz Fest 2012-05-06T01:31:04Z She runs a sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo for orphaned and otherwise rescued bonobos, and the film portrays her first efforts to release some of them back into the wild. Review: ‘Bonobos: Back to the Wild,’ a Sanctuary’s Rehab Mission 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z In 2007, “Tintin in the Congo,” by Hergé, was removed from the children’s section in libraries and bookstores over concerns about racism; the book is no longer widely available in the United States. As Classic Novels Get Revised for Today’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z "They produced a video that millions of people watched; millions of people learned more about the Congo conflict than they would from another source." Joseph Kony graphic novel illustrates personal stories of violent campaign 2013-03-15T17:57:21Z But convincing England fans to abandon their team and watch a group of paraplegic street musicians from the Congo was always going to be a big ask. Staff Benda Bilili at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-27T19:51:00Z The affected region in Congo was near the Ebola River, which is how the virus got its name. What is Ebola and how do people catch it? Instead, he wants to tackle “King Leopold’s Ghost,” an epic about the colonial plundering of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo; Martin Scorsese has signed on as a producer. Ben Affleck Tried to Drink Away the Pain. Now He’s Trying Honesty. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z In the film, his pictures from Biafra, Vietnam, the Congo and Beirut are supplemented by some disturbing and rarely seen footage from the same conflicts. All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z A fan of American genre movies, Mr. Congo is shown in the film graphically re-enacting how he strangled political opponents with piano wire or beat them to death, in scenes that are florid and horrific. The Carpetbagger: A Death-Squad Leader Feels Honored 2014-01-16T17:23:25Z For Everfair, the titular African nation of Nisi Shawl’s magisterial 2017 novel rewriting the history of the Belgian Congo, the author created an entire country and its institutions from scratch. What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The wrath of King Albert II was provoked when his youngest son, the 47-year-old Prince Laurent visited Congo, Belgium's former colony, last month against the wishes of both his father and the Belgian government. It's King vs Prince in Belgium's battle royale 2011-04-05T12:27:12Z Accompanied by Christie’s expressive paintings, Weatherford’s poetic text depicts the liberation and the community that Congo Square Sundays provided each week after six days of hard labor. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The cool thing for us is that when this one’s done, there’s always another one — Middle East, Africa, Cambodia, Laos, Suez, Congo, Lebanon, Algeria. Books of The Times: Tatjana Soli?s ?Lotus Eaters? Offers Lessons From Vietnam 2010-03-29T04:59:00Z In a foreword, historian Freddi Williams Evans explains New Orleans’s Congo Square, a marketplace where people of African heritage, both enslaved and free, were allowed to express themselves through music and dance on Sunday afternoons. The best children’s and YA books of the month, February edition 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z One of my favorites is “Heart of the Congos,” by the Congos. How Baltimore and a Viral ‘Letterman’ Moment Pushed Future Islands to ‘The Far Field’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The clear purpose of the multivocal narrative is to let you piece together the apparently strange world of the Congo from these different accounts. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z But socially and behaviorally, chimps and bonobos are worlds apart, even though they only live on opposite banks of the Congo River. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The story of the CIA-backed coup in the Congo in 1960 struck me as the heart of darkness in a nutshell. Barbara Kingsolver on The Poisonwood Bible – Guardian book club 2013-05-11T07:31:38Z Tarzan agrees only after a friend persuades him that King Leopold might be enslaving the people of Congo. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Proposed contenders are the Inga 3 on the Congo, the biggest hydro project in African history, and other giant structures on the Zambezi. Flood of new dam projects threatens world’s last wild rivers 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z "To the memory of the Belgian Congo," smiles Diop as he accepts the booty. Lupin: introducing anglophone audiences to a more socially conscious gentleman thief 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Soul singer Al Green closed out the day on the Congo Square stage, drawing his faithful. Springsteen packs them in for Jazz Fest 2012-04-30T00:55:09Z Displaying 80 people in a human zoo in Oslo's most elegant park, two artists hope their "Congo Village" display will help erase what they say is Norwegian's collective amnesia about racism. Human zoo hopes to challenge Norway's image on racism 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z In some ways, Tintin in the Congo was mild for its time. Tintin: Heroic Boy Reporter or Sinister Racist? 2010-05-04T08:00:00Z On Friday, the Cinema for Peace Foundation honored Ben Affleck with its humanitarian award for his work in Eastern Congo. The Carpetbagger: Doing Good (and Burnishing Images, Too) 2013-01-15T19:16:44Z Congo said on Sunday it would quarantine the area around the town of Djera, in the isolated north-western jungle province of Equateur, where a high number of suspected cases has been reported. Ebola: worker infected at WHO laboratory in Sierra Leone 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “Being born into the United States rather than the Congo is like being born into the nobility rather than the peasantry in the Middle Ages,” he explained in an interview with the Washington Post. On this dark day for DACA consider what open borders really mean 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Among other winners were Fally Ipupa, a singer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who received the best video award for his song "Sexy Dance." Singer 2 Face wins MTV Africa artist of the year 2010-12-12T01:16:00Z The troops were in the Congo to help support the African country’s newly established government. Watch the Trailer for the New Netflix Film 'The Siege of Jadotville' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z One layer is political: the shameful history of Belgium as the colonizer of Congo, where Mr. Dutroux lived until he was 4. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z “I knew you in the Congo,” she said now. “An Evening with Joseph Conrad” 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Back in the late 1980s, when I was in my early 20s, I had to change planes at Kinshasa, capital of the then Zaire, now DR Congo. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z “White Cube,” a 77-minute film that is screening in art centers across the world this month, including in Eindhoven, the Netherlands; Kinshasa, Congo; Lagos, Nigeria; and Tokyo, documents that process. With a New Museum, African Workers Take Control of Their Destiny 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z In Congo Square, inside the park, McCusker tapped into jazz’s forebears, the slaves who gathered on Sundays to sing, dance and play their ancestral music from West Africa. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z He was always off someplace far-flung — the Congo! the moon! — in the company of scientists and eccentric strangers. What books inspired Richard Russo, Harlan Coben, Lauren Groff and others 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Their second and significantly larger project, Congo Square, was born. Heat combo: When Wynton Marsalis met Yacub Addy 2012-07-06T21:55:21Z Louis Congo was alone in an unknown world. Louisiana’s hidden history: The former slave who became an executioner 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z Eastern Congo has had its problems; I’ve covered many of them. Into Africa: 6 Vacation Ideas From Our Experts 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z A golden statue of a European missionary holding an African child with a plaque that reads: “Belgium brings civilization to Congo”, will remain on show, but its historical context will be explained. King Leopold's ghost: Belgium's Africa museum to reopen 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z One impressive female figure, from Gabon or Congo, is essentially a standing, gesturing embodiment of a cosmological map. Art Review: ?African Innovations? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-09-01T12:00:00Z The two will travel to Congo in November for the election. Cindy McCain in Congo to highlight violence 2011-07-21T14:12:09Z Her brilliant adaptation of MOther Courage, RUINED, is set in the Congo. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Jazz’s roots can be traced back to Congo Square, a plaza in central New Orleans that had been a gathering place for Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z But as the most travelled of Congo’s peripatetic singers, possessed of a distinctive and beautiful voice, he often seemed to stand for them all. The king of the rumba 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Yet her songs ride sleek, complex studio grooves that draw from all over Africa and beyond — Nigeria, Congo, Senegal, the Caribbean — to find pleasure in hard-headed resilience. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z “It’s really hard to get people to care about women in Congo, as you can imagine,” said Ensler. City of Joy: the powerful Netflix documentary where 'everything is about love' 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z For instance, this week Film Forum unveils “System K,” a lively, cogent, unsettling documentary about the incredible art world roiling in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘System K’ Review: Art in the Streets of Desperation 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Stretching from the Sahara in the north to the Congo River in the south, Searcey’s beat demanded a mix of every kind of reporting. What Happened When a Times Reporter Traded Brooklyn for Dakar 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Wemba, who, like all Congo’s star musicians, naturally maintained an ambivalent attitude to power—sometimes critical, but generally compliant—at first played along. The king of the rumba 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z A string of them — Lagos, Nigeria; Kinshasa, Congo; Cairo — are already more populous than New York. ‘Architecture of Independence’ in Africa’s Fast-Growing Cities 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison was and continues to be a “big chief” of the Congo Nation black Indian group, and Mr. Scott’s grandfather was a chief of four groups. Jazz Trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Melds Past, Present and Future 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Eastern Congo has been one of the world’s most productive factories of mayhem since the mid-1990s, when the central government collapsed and rebel armies — greedy to exploit Congo’s mineral riches — carved the country into fiefs. Impossible to Forget: Orchids Hotel, Congo 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z But this has been my base to cover Congo’s war, which keeps mutating and finding new victims. Impossible to Forget: Orchids Hotel, Congo 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z The filmmaker recalled how Baldwin’s writing directly affected his own way of seeing when his family moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo from Haiti when he was 8. Finally, a Screenplay by James Baldwin 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z “In Congo there is no love for each other, no one has the country at heart,” she told The Observer, a Ugandan newspaper, in 2009. Tshala Muana, Congolese Singer With Danceable Messages, Dies at 64 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The booth of the Democratic Republic of Congo was, for some reason, playing a film of the 1974 Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight in Kinshasa. In Kazakhstan, a World Expo Is All About Energy (and Dancing) 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Mwanza, a teen from the Congo who’s never acted before, has an uncanny ability to look simultaneously childlike and terribly old and weary. ‘War Witch’: Odyssey of a child-soldier 2013-03-14T20:56:32Z He turned east and found the mouth of a huge river—the Congo. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Congo declined to talk to The Associated Press, saying without elaborating that many reporters had “cornered” him in the past. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z There are certain countries that produce more minerals than others — China, Brazil, Pakistan and many countries in Africa including Mozambique, Tanzania, Congo, Zambia and Madagascar. Chemical Compounds That Incite Oohs and Aahs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The plants in the Congo house, fittingly enough, failed to thrive. Books of The Times: Ruth Kassinger?s ?Paradise Under Glass? 2010-05-16T21:37:00Z China's interest in the Congo hasn't been explained yet. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z After breaking through the overgrown vegetation, we are treated to vistas sweeping across to Congo. In Rwanda, mountain gorilla treks spur country’s renewal effort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Many of the people he centers on, particularly main character Anwar Congo, are far from remorseful about their past actions and at times even seem to glorify them. 'Act of Killing' helmer Joshua Oppenheimer among MacArthur recipients 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The show will be in Ali’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, and will air via satellite in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a weeklong music, sporting and cultural festival called CONGO14. Ali concert to mark 40 years since Foreman fight 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z As he talks — about directing, acting, American solipsism, storied filmmakers, climate change, celebrity culture, money in politics, his nonprofit group the Eastern Congo Initiative — Mr. Affleck grows increasingly animated, especially after switching from decaf coffee. Ben Affleck Stars in David Fincher's ‘Gone Girl’ 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The next stage was for musicians to record their own versions of African songs, and so champeta – the Latin-tinged response to music from Nigeria, South Africa and Congo – was born. How African music made it big in Colombia 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z “It’s not an easy trip but it’s an incredible privilege to experience the Republic of the Congo’s unique wildlife and cultural opportunities,” she wrote in an e-mail. The 46 Places to Go in 2013 2013-01-11T16:15:59Z In a memorial room that contains a wall with the names of Belgians who died in Congo, for instance, an artist uses a projector to superimpose the names of Congolese victims of colonialism. Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The main character in “The Act of Killing” is a death squad leader named Anwar Congo, responsible for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in a large city on the island of Sumatra. The Carpetbagger: A Death-Squad Leader Feels Honored 2014-01-16T17:23:25Z It feels a long way from spending time in a tent in Congo. War and Gorillas and Other Hazards of Documentary Filmmaking 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The new initiative is funded in part by founding member Howard G. Buffett, son of investor Warren Buffet, to whom Affleck pitched his vision of a new aid group by describing eastern Congo's dire situation. Ben Affleck launches aid group for eastern Congo 2010-03-22T15:37:00Z In the film Congo demonstrates how he preferred to strangle his victims with wire, taking inspiration from a mafia movie. No Indonesia return, says director 2014-02-18T11:48:36Z And it's just those sorts of insecurities that, as he stages his past misdemeanours in The Act of Killing, catch up with Anwar Congo. Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir 2013-06-05T15:36:08Z The irony is that he’d survived the rigors of traveling in Africa, including a nerve-racking three-day trip into the jungle in Congo for a rare interview with Hutu militiamen who fled after the genocide. The Uncondemned: the heartbreaking story behind the first conviction of rape as a war crime 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But the compromised universe of film noir is how Congo and his Hollywood-inspired associates choose to dress up their part in purges which, across Indonesia, claimed an estimated half a million lives. Indonesian cinema and the rise of a new noir 2013-06-05T15:36:08Z SAT Culture of Ghana, Zimbabwe, Congo, Uganda and other African countries, marketplace, fashion show, interactive dance and drumming, entertainment, noon-8 p.m. Community calendar 2012-05-09T22:07:04Z This heart-wrenching programme begins with his negotiated release from rebels who have been kidnapping and training child fighters in the rainforests of the Congo for more than 15 years. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-04-01T06:59:00Z As he is preparing to pass further north into the Congo, Theroux, the hardened doyen of travel writers, decides he can take no more and he turns tail to return to South Africa. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z Mr. Gryseels recited the names of some of the statues: “Belgium Brings Civilization to Congo” and “Belgium Brings Security to Congo.” Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z McCabe’s film is about the ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a huge country roughly two-thirds the size of Western Europe. “This Is Congo” and the Ongoing Despair in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z And then there's her charity work with organizations including the Children's Defense Fund, Action Against Hunger, Raise Hope for Congo and Save the Children, for which she serves as an ambassador. Iman is entrepreneur, humanitarian, mother and now fashion-line maven 2011-11-07T16:27:52Z The Congo Square rhythms festival will include an African drum circle and several African dance performances. Congo Square rhythms fest kicks off March 23 2013-03-16T15:14:11Z Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Baloji was sent by his wealthy dad to live in Belgium where his troubled teenage life found expression in the successful hip-hop group Starflam. This week's new live music 2012-11-24T00:05:34Z “Harlem Congo,” part of a “Cotton Club Medley” he’s put together for the show, wasn’t something he’d ever heard before. It’s got that swing: ‘Cotton Club’ coming to Benaroya Hall 2013-05-30T19:47:55Z The Virungas are a chain of ancient volcanoes stretching across the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda. In Rwanda, mountain gorilla treks spur country’s renewal effort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Congo’s Pain, Told by Those Who Lived It THE thought of Kambale Syaghuswa performing on a Manhattan stage is all but unimaginable. Ping Chong Delivers a New Set of Undesirable Elements Plays 2012-10-14T01:30:01Z The trek up 11,378-foot Nyiragongo remains popular, despite the ongoing violence in Congo. When planning a hike on an active volcano, safety before spectacle 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The tropical forests of the Congo Basin, once considered impenetrable, are now yielding to logging roads, mines, and even palm-oil plantations. The Forest Elephants of the Central African Republic Are in Peril 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z His “Night Spot” is a humble shack with grand ambitions, as is revealed by the sign announcing that it’s the Congo Club. In the galleries: Perspectives on blending culture and identity 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z More than that, it reminds us of the continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which rarely makes the front pages but has led to 5.4 million deaths. Review 2010-04-22T23:18:00Z Nevertheless, the movie charts the course of his career as he reflects on capturing strife in Berlin, Cyprus, Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon and the United States, along with homelessness in his native London. Review: ‘McCullin’ Captures a Photojournalist’s View of Covering the World 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z A separate outbreak has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ebola: worker infected at WHO laboratory in Sierra Leone 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z And in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 62% of women and 48% of men think a man is entitled to sex even if a woman refuses. Politics Aside, the Data on Women Collected by The Clinton Foundation is Worth a Look 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z This narrative, that outsiders brought the disease, has been stoked by some politicians amid the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola doctors and medical centers are being attacked. Can You Make a Page-Turning Thriller Out of the Ebola Crisis? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In 2005, he held an exhibition that shocked many by showing what happened in the colonial period and how its legacy damages Congo still. Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The Eastern Congo Initiative will also push the U.S. government to develop a comprehensive strategy and show more leadership in the region, he said. Ben Affleck launches aid group for eastern Congo 2010-03-22T15:37:00Z The photographer Richard Mosse shot his photo and video artwork — which focuses on soldiers and citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo — using a form of military film that registers infrared light. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z If one could raise the salience of Congo, for example, on the national agenda, then that impels leaders to lead. 2010-02-17T09:00:00Z Last week, the Democratic Republic of the Congo said 13 people had died with symptoms of an unspecified haemmorrhagic fever. Ebola epidemic will get worse before it gets better, top US health body warns 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z A mother returns from working in the fields in eastern Congo to find her house ransacked by a militia group and her daughter wailing from pain. The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Today, veterans of those Ur-interventions find themselves trying to replicate their dubious successes in places like Mexico and Honduras, the Central Africa Republic and the Congo. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z But increasingly I’ve been travelling to places like the favelas of Brazil, parts of the Congo, Sri Lanka, from Tel Aviv on into Jerusalem, on into Cairo. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z He then told me that in the 19th century the English went to what is now the Congo and hunted these people, tracked them down and shot them for sport. Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy 2013-04-13T20:31:46Z The song was an instant success across Congo and East Africa and was voted the Zairean song of the year. The Death of Simaro Lutumba Closes a Chapter of Congolese Music 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z In Shawl’s alternate world, a small group of idealists unite in the late 1880s with the goal of wresting the Congo from Leopold’s tyranny and establishing a new country there, which they name Everfair. ‘Everfair’: a fantastical utopia amid King Leopold’s hell 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Topics: , Social Media, Civil War, minerals, tech companies, , United Nations peacekeepers patrol near their encampment in the village of Kimua, deep in the heart of territory controlled by Rwandan Hutu rebels, in eastern Congo. Your favorite tech devices could be funding wars in Africa 2014-01-14T14:00:00Z Testifying before the Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, Mr. Affleck made a plea for stronger measures to protect human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo. D.C. Journey for ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Argo’ 2012-12-21T23:58:57Z It’s of his grandfather, wearing a hat and suit, posing more than a century ago with some of the workers of a diamond mine he oversaw in what was then known as the Belgian Congo. Diamonds have a dirty secret. But there's a climate-conscious solution 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z At 11,382 feet, Mount Nyiragongo — the mountain Kennedy was cajoling me to climb — isn’t the largest of the eight volcanoes, known collectively as the Virungas, that stud the border between Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. In Congo, a climb to the mouth of hell But the narratives in “Cry for Peace” are too fluid, too embedded within Congo’s current miseries, to be contained in print. Ping Chong Delivers a New Set of Undesirable Elements Plays 2012-10-14T01:30:01Z “How the capitalist system got to Congo, how the system transformed our political identity, economic identity and cultural and spiritual identities today.” With Kuba Kings and Kehinde, a Painter Rises Above the Fray 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z A report from the UN mission in Congo on Tuesday said 13 people there had died from Ebola, including five health workers. Ebola: worker infected at WHO laboratory in Sierra Leone 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z The Congo Village - which 100 years ago displayed African tribes, attracting 1.4 million visitors over four months - will this time exhibit volunteers taking turns living on show in makeshift huts, resembling a traditional sub-Saharan village. Human zoo hopes to challenge Norway's image on racism 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Department of State, Schook described Ali a Mutu as “unusually committed to the literature of his home nation, and he believes his role is to promote it from within the Congo.” Congolese author couldn't get a visa, but he'll still take part in tonight's ALOUD program — via Skype 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z For them, government funding from the Democratic Republic of Congo for the arts seems nearly impossible to secure. With Kuba Kings and Kehinde, a Painter Rises Above the Fray 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z He closes the Congo Square stage on May 2. New Orleans Jazz Fest features living legends 2013-04-25T16:11:08Z Initially, the elderly Congo claims making a Hollywood-like production will justify past crimes, but the process clearly proves haunting for him. ‘The Act of Killing’: a haunting take on Indonesia genocide 2013-08-01T22:56:25Z And what if I placed them in the Congo, right at the moment when it's trying to throw off colonial rule? Barbara Kingsolver on The Poisonwood Bible – Guardian book club 2013-05-11T07:31:38Z Mr. Bokondji traveled extensively in Congo and learned many local, lesser-known styles that infuse his songs, giving them variety and bite. Review: Globalfest’s World Music for a Connected World 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Supporting female health workers 8 Mar 2010: UK medical aid ageny Merlin is campaigning to support female health workers in crisis countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. US porn industry thrown into crisis after actor tests positive for HIV 2010-10-13T18:32:00Z The action takes place in the eighteen-eighties, set in the historical context of the colonization of the Congo and the efforts of King Leopold of Belgium to subjugate and enslave its population. Tarzan Cannot Be Rebooted 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z For the viewer, the effect, in “Congo,” is a bit like waking up on a train and watching the passing world through the windows. Nothing but Pictures: Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin’s “Congo” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z His "Congo Square" evokes a New Orleans neighborhood where African slaves performed ancestral dancing and music, and was written for drumming for jazz orchestra and Ghanaian percussionists and singers. Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis to perform in S.Africa 2011-08-23T11:02:12Z Brussels' court of first instance said it did not believe the 1946 edition of Tintin in the Congo was intended to incite racial hatred, a criteria when deciding if something breaks Belgium's racism laws. Great snakes! Tintin isn't racist, Belgian court rules 2012-02-13T12:34:09Z And that of Michel Chikwanine, required at the age of 5 to join rebel soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who forced him to shoot his own best friend. Stars shine at We Day, inspire students to change the world 2013-03-28T17:40:35Z Visitors to the zoo will be asked to choose their favorite from among three traditional Lingala names, the language in the region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is home to the species. Bashful baby bonobo born in Belgium 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z His place at the committee table among academic experts and government officials came through his experience founding the East Congo Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps direct aid to the war-torn region. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z In the Congo, the 2012 toll from Ebola has reached 31 deaths, with another 38 suspected or confirmed to have the disease. 'Spillover': Deadly diseases that jump from animals to humans 2012-09-26T22:17:04Z "What music did the slaves play in Congo Square?" Heat combo: When Wynton Marsalis met Yacub Addy 2012-07-06T21:55:21Z A scene from The Act of Killing, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer Anwar Congo is showing us how he used to kill people. Joshua Oppenheimer: 'Even a mass killer you can love as a human being' 2013-06-20T14:57:23Z Glancing down at prepared testimony, Affleck told the House Armed Services Committee that he had traveled to Congo regularly in recent years, seeing both the effects of violence and the potential of the African country. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z The show begins in the ancient kingdom of Kongo, which covered parts of today’s Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon. Sailing in Shackles, a Culture Survives 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z As she demonstrated in her two Pulitzer winners — “Ruined,” about sexual slavery in Congo, and “Sweat,” about blue-collar disaffection in the rust belt of Pennsylvania — Ms. Nottage does deep and conscientious research for her plays. Review: An Elephant’s Ghost Stalks the World in ‘Mlima’s Tale’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Audrey Hepburn, playing with a monkey while shooting "The Nun's Story" in the Belgian Congo. Arty gift books on Stephen Sondheim, Apollo Theater, 'Mad Men' and more 2010-12-18T01:22:14Z That led to "Disclosure," "Rising Sun," "The Lost World," "Congo," "Sphere," and "The 13th Warrior." 15 summer "blockbusters" that completely tanked at the box office 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Her brilliant adaptation of MOtherCourage, RUINED, is set in the Congo. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The setting is the magnificent — and protected — Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to many of the world’s last mountain gorillas and the region’s best hope for economic stability. ‘Virunga,’ a Searing Documentary Set in Congo 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z He said he would continue to be active with the Eastern Congo Initiative, a charity he founded to promote peaceful development. ArtsBeat: Ben Affleck Says No to a Senate Run 2012-12-25T17:55:40Z Dr. Rau, a reclusive bachelor and the wealthy scion of Stuttgart industrialists, moved in the early 1980s to Africa, where he founded a hospital near Bukavu, now part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Swiss Open Inquiry Into Collection That Was Transferred to Unicef 2013-12-04T22:54:15Z No one knows how many survive in conflict zones in Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, where rare forest elephants are even more at risk. Kristin Davis: ivory is blood diamond 2012-10-04T07:00:06Z She expected to become the biographer of the Irish born soldier Mike Hoare, nicknamed Mad Mike, who led several mercenary groups in the Congo crisis of the 1960s and the Seychelles in the 1970s. Irish author Bree O'Mara killed in Libya plane crash 2010-05-13T12:36:00Z It’s not exactly up there with malaria outbreaks in the Congo or street riots in Athens. DealBook: Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day 2012-04-04T22:26:55Z In Congo, he used Kodak Aerochrome infrared film to photograph paramilitary rebels against the lush tropical landscape, transforming green tones into alarming shades of hot pink. The Terrible Beauty of Richard Mosse’s Portrait of the Amazon 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Countries like Congo need improvements in museums and security, he added. Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That? 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Ian Berry/Magnum Photos I was travelling around Congo with Tom Hopkinson, the editor of Picture Post, and a couple of other photographers. 'I was gutted that I'd been such a coward': photographers who didn't step in to help 2012-07-28T00:48:00Z "They deserve better than this cycle of violence and upheaval," he said of the people of Congo. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z It’s certain that he was very embarrassed about Tintin in the Congo later in life. Tintin 101: What You Need to Know Before You See the Movie 2011-12-21T09:58:24Z Eight years later, Jim is back in Congo digging wells, surfing and condescending to the locals — in other words, doing penance for his earlier misdeeds and trying to forget about his lost love. Review: In ‘The Gunman,’ Sean Penn Plays a Remorseful Sniper on the Run 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The film starts in the Congo, where the mineral-rich country is being strip-mined by international conglomerates while guerrilla warfare between the country's factions is leaving a trail of blood. 'The Gunman' with Sean Penn a misfire that wastes strong cast 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Human Rights Council, Jolie accompanied Hague to refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, never giving an indication of the personal health traumas she was going through at that time. Angelina Jolie caps journey from wild child to doting mother 2013-05-16T01:03:07Z I want a Robert Rauschenberg box studded inside with nails like an inverted Congo fetish; a Picasso painting of a dwarf dancer; a Roy Lichtenstein fighter plane. Banksy: overrated purveyor of art-lite 2013-02-19T11:00:38Z His quest for an answer, he said, sent him back to Obilo, the village in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he spent part of his childhood. Dance Review: ‘Le Cargo,’ With Faustin Linyekula, at Gould Hall 2012-09-22T00:12:29Z Tintin in the Congo was Hergé's second book, with the plot evolving in the former Belgian colony, including encounters with diamond smugglers, big game hunters and wild animals. Great snakes! Tintin isn't racist, Belgian court rules 2012-02-13T12:34:09Z The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most conflict-ridden countries in the world. Kinshasa orchestra: 'it was a dream' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z "Virunga" follows park rangers in the eastern Congo protecting the land and animals. Oscar nominations 2015: Surprise, drama in documentary picks 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z The essential problem is that networks have found they can send a reporter to a place like Congo, but it's dangerous and expensive and doesn't get good ratings. 2010-02-17T09:00:00Z Players from Syria, Afghanistan and African countries including Ivory Coast, Congo and Nigeria took part in a series of matches in a FIFA-designated Football Park by the Kremlin walls. Asian, African migrants living in Russia play soccer on Red Square 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Much of what runs through “Spies in the Congo” will be wearily recognisable to the Congolese, and many Africans. Rich pickings 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Chocolate desserts, too, are very different: Eastern Congo chocolate mousse is partnered with yogurt curd, cumin caramel and crumbs of chocolate shortbread. Nottingham's Restaurant Sat Bains 2010-12-09T14:05:00Z Junior Murvin’s sweet, high voice on “Police & Thieves” and the uncanny harmonies of the Congos’ “Heart of the Congos” became the perfect conduits for Perry to deliver hard truths in song form. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The event focused on Rwanda, Congo and Nigeria, and speakers debated issues of democracy, economics, the environment and regional cooperation. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z In an earlier trip to Congo, she listened as a woman named Angelique told a tale of unimaginable horror. Review: Eve Ensler Goes Deep ‘In the Body of the World’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The Democratic Republic of Congo’s president, Félix Tshisekedi, poses with the cityscape of Kinshasa peeking out between curtains in the background. Presidential Portraits by Kehinde Wiley, This Time From Africa 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z “Perhaps because of the will of man, growing up in Congo is to grow up in misery, because of these endless, unjust wars.” “This Is Congo” and the Ongoing Despair in the Democratic Republic of Congo 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Today they number approximately one million worldwide, with most living in parts of the developing world, including Paraguay, India and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Simple Life 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The beauty, pride and common purpose that oozes from the performance make mincemeat of the cliches of chaos and hopelessness that burden the Congo. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z "These earrings are made from AK-47 gun metal in Africa," said the actress, adding that money from sale of the jewelry goes to fund weapon destruction in countries like Congo. Emmy fashions lean toward bright colors, simple lines 2011-09-19T03:43:05Z And there’s Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, leader of lethal armies of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was sentenced to a mere 14 years. Smack Mellon and Grey Art Display Art Sparked by Politics 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Even when most were held in bondage, they orchestrated riotous multiday celebrations called “Pinkster” events in the North, “Place Congo” in the South. ‘American Fun’: diligent worker bees vs. party animals 2014-04-02T23:33:12Z At 73, Mr. Kent remains a passionate explorer active in conservation projects, including working to save the endangered bonobo apes in Congo. Taking a Path of Conservation to Tourism 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z When King Leopold II colonized the African Congo in 1885, largely for the cocoa crops, the resulting genocide was a dark moment in the country’s history. Brussels: The Chocolate Trail 2011-12-23T17:57:07Z Though he is just 51 now, Mr. Mabanckou’s life’s work — most of it set in Pointe-Noire, his hometown in the Congo Republic — has yet to become as well known in the United States. An African Novelist Poised for Recognition in the U.S. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The hostel is the only one in the city and is inside the First Congregational Church, better known to locals as “First Congo.” Graceland aside, there’s a King-size array of attractions in Memphis 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z This was the King Leopold II under whose brutal personal rule of the Congo Free State, from 1885-1908, an estimated 10m Congolese died of disease, starvation, war, ill-treatment, and summary execution. Lumumba fights its corner as a corrective to imperialism 2012-06-14T13:25:47Z Six years ago, he traveled to Congo with an anti-torture human rights group. Clown Dimitri, beloved Swiss performer, dead at 80 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Wadjda comes from a female Saudi director and War Witch follows a teenager into Congo's civil war. This week's new film events 2013-03-09T06:00:09Z Affleck was one of five witnesses - and the only one asked to pose for pictures by starry-eyed aides - to testify to the committee about Congo. Affleck calls for stronger US leadership in Congo 2012-12-19T22:13:09Z We visited Congo Square, an open area in Louis Armstrong Park outside the French Quarter, where we were told African slaves used to play on Sunday afternoons. Heat combo: When Wynton Marsalis met Yacub Addy 2012-07-06T21:55:21Z More than 800 deaths from a single outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo since just last August.” Julianna Margulies on her shocking Ebola drama: 'I panicked in my hazmat suit!' 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z The critics were scandalised; but this was a time of hope and change in Congo which Zaiko’s thrusting rhythms captured. The king of the rumba 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The trial, which will begin on Wednesday in Brussels, the city where Tintin's creator Hergé lived, is reviving memories of an era that Belgium would rather forget: its brutal colonial empire in the Congo. Tintin: Heroic Boy Reporter or Sinister Racist? 2010-05-04T08:00:00Z The circumstances of his death in 1961, on his way to negotiate a ceasefire during the Congo crisis, in a mysterious air crash in Northern Rhodesia, aged 56, remain an enigma. My hero: Dag Hammarskjöld by Timothy Mo 2012-05-25T21:55:11Z In 1947, she won a supporting role in an acclaimed Broadway revue, “Angel in the Wings,” singing the nonsense song that went “Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo.” Elaine Stritch, vivid stage and screen personality, dies at 89 Former pilot Armand Diangienda, who founded a symphony orchestra in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is among those to be honoured. 'Life-changing' musicians honoured 2013-04-24T15:21:08Z Another Africa Express favourite, Jupiter and Okwess International from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are opening on the main stage on the Friday. Mali hits Glastonbury: Rokia Traoré, Fatoumata Diawara and more 2013-06-18T17:37:00Z With its long, sorry history of colonization and exploitation of its natural resources, the Congo remains a place that generates enormous wealth while most of its people are impoverished. 'Virunga' captures drama of African rangers guarding gorillas 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Sexual violence is frequently used as a weapon of war by rebel groups that operate in eastern Congo, as well as by Congolese soldiers. Jolie meets with women, girls in eastern Congo 2013-03-25T16:40:09Z Salvo is a professional translator specialising in the languages of the Congo region. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z But Congo was immense, and the parts I visited — Kivu in the east and Katanga in the south — were full of life in the way of beleaguered places. Why We Travel 2011-04-01T19:10:47Z |
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