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Novelist Emmanuel Dongala on Exile

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala look at the lives and work of composers, writers, and musicians who left their native homelands and sought refuge in the United States. Dongala was born in the Congo Republic and educated in the United States and France. In 1997, civil war in the Congo forced him to […]

Emmanuel Dongala

Arts, Culture & Media
Artisanal gold miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo use their hands and crude tools to find and extract gold.

Tracing conflict gold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jobs
With heavy guns still smoking, residents of the town of Bunagana, celebrate the routing of M-23 rebels by the Congolese army.

A photographer in Congo witnessed the moment when the guns fell silent

Conflict & Justice