Independence Eve Release Stirs Literary Circles Brazzaville’s riverfront already hums with rehearsals for the 65th Independence Day parade, but another kind of drumroll is sounding in…
Brazzaville’s Buzz On The Equatorial Bend Stand on the corniche in Brazzaville at dusk and the Congo River looks less like a border with Kinshasa than…
First cases revive a familiar worry Cholera is no stranger to the Congo River basin, yet the sight of health workers in blue overalls ferrying chlorine…
French Mastery Contest Lights Up Marien-Ngouabi The conference hall inside Marien-Ngouabi University filled with the unmistakable murmur of exam anxiety on the afternoon of 31 July.…
Cultural Hierarchies Shape Polite Talk Walk through any market in Brazzaville and you will notice greetings stretch longer than the shopping list. In Congo-Brazzaville, a fine…
Festival roots and regional impact On 17 August the Pierre-Savorgnan-de-Brazza memorial hall is expected to shake more from applause than from traffic noise. The third edition…
Legacy of Rumba Resonates in Brazzaville Three years after the United Nations placed Congolese rumba on its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the capital is getting ready…
