Thierry Michel's "Congo River, Beyond Darkness" plunges the viewer into a two-hour trek up the 2,500-mile Congo river from its mouth to its distant source. This exploration of post-colonial Africa ...

CONGO (See Cover) The tom-tom must beat this night to call our warriors to the fight. Everywhere in the bush the army of warriors must answer this ancestral call. —Moise Tshombe, on the eve of ...

Congo was still lurching through the aftermath of one of the most horrific wars in modern history, and armed militias roamed everywhere, terrorizing anyone and everyone.

In a world driven by power and profit, the Congo became collateral damage. This is a case study in exploitation - one that shows how systemic failure crushes even the strongest potential.

Call the Congo, Che's "Heart of Darkness," the place where he confronted his own inner demons and was undone by them. Too embarrassed to return to Cuba immediately after the military defeat of the ...

It seems impossible to write about Africa’s horrific colonial past without another return to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899)–especially when the venue is the Congo, which Belgium ...

The Congo River is a long, arcing river in West-Central Africa, featuring a rainforest and providing food and transport for 75 million people.

That part is the Congo, the vast area of equatorial Africa that contains great mountains, immense jungles, the mighty Congo River, huge deposits of valuable minerals and people of numerous ethnic ...