In Central Africa lies a country, almost a subcontinent, roughly the size of all of Western Europe—one of the richest countries in terms of resources, yet one of the poorest in terms of resource gain ...

Kasavubu began to dream of reviving the fabled 14th century kingdom of the Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese. After his election as one of Léopoldville’s commune ...

When Congo was under Belgian colonial rule between 1908 and ... “I grew up thinking my father was dead,” Simone Ngalula, who was brought to Katende in 1952, told Smithsonian magazine’s ...