Born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is 65 years old and serves as Archbishop of Kinshasa; he is the only African ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu arrives to celebrate Mass, three days before the conclave to elect the 267th pope of the ...

A living critique of censorship, containing everything from ‘Mein Kampf’ to ‘Tintin in the Congo’, which can sometimes leave visitors in tears ...

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Colonel Sofiya Qureshi’s journey, from commanding peacekeeping missions to leading Operation Sindoor, is a powerful reminder ...

United States-led efforts to end the current armed conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region appear oblivious to one of the key ...

The Met’s exhibition charts the evolution of the Black dandy from the 18th century to today. Here’s what to look for on the ...

The independence ceremony for The Congo, held on 30 June, 1960. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba delivers his independence speech. | Congo Press/Wikimedia Commons The Congo gained independence from ...

Perhaps a revealing question is whether the church will continue the radical novelty Francis brought as a pope from a ...

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...