Congolese artist Sammy Baloji's first documentary The Tree of Authenticity fuses images and sounds, and features a talking tree as its narrator, to highlight the connection between Democratic Republic ...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Near the banks of Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, artist Patrick Cikuru Cirimwami wades knee-deep through a mountain of ...

A man wearing a silver suit and silver bucket for a helmet walks down a busy dirt street in a ghetto in Kinshasa. This is just an ordinary day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s capital and ...

A new exhibition at the Africa Museum in Belgium takes a frank look at a large-scale propaganda painting and the ...

The cream-colored leather couch seems a bit out of place in artist Terrance Osborne's studio, just a few paces from the brush-washing bucket and the heap of acrylic paint tubes. It could be a disaster ...

Ben Kamuntu is a slameur (slam poet) with Goma Slam Session, a blossoming collective of spoken word artists in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He’s also an activist with the pro-democracy ...

Artist Paul Deo is the not-to-miss artist at Jazz Fest's Congo Square craft booths. You have to see Deo's portrait of Hornets star Chris Paul in person to really appreciate it. The bright, swirling ...

One of France’s biggest pop artists, Christine and the Queens, is calling for urgent attention and action for refugees fleeing violence in the Democratic of the Congo, as concern rises over the number ...

Goma and Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo — As rebels seize their towns, spoken-word artists battle censorship and violence. On the last Friday of every month, they would gather in public ...