Syracuse, NY -- Kambale Syaghuswa was in high school in Congo when the violence became so dire he had to flee. Amid the chaos, he says, he didn’t know precisely which tribe was trying to kill ...

tribes on the western bank of the river in insurrection -- trouble incited by invading tangangyika arabs -- reinforcements sent out by congo state authorities. Share full article Aug. 13, 1892 ...

Streaming into Leopoldville last week, the delegates to the Congo’s first Parliament were a strange-looking lot. Some had the sharply pointed heads of a tribe that practices infant skull ...

The Bambuti tribe, also know as Mbuti, are Africa's shortest tribe, averaging under 4 feet 6 inches (137 cm) in height. By contrast the median height of African males is 168cm, while that for ...

To discuss this article visit First Drafts, Prospect 's blog. In his article "The curse of Leopold" ( Prospect, December), Tim Butcher argues that those who try to attribute the fighting in eastern ...

Mr. Claridge's “Bush Tribes” are the Ba-Congo of Northern Angola, and the country the inhabitants of which he describes stretches from the Congo on the north to St. Paul de Loanda in the south ...