The conference The present special volume of the journal Afriques is an outcome of the conference “Extracting the Past from the Present, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on African Precolonial History”, which took place 1-5 March 2021. The conference was planned to be hosted at the Uni...
The story opens at a time when Cabinda – a small African enclave surrounded by the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and separated from Angola by the Congo River – is plunged into bloody war. Deep in the heart of Cabinda is the Mayombe rainforest, home to a group of guerrilla fighters...
The next session of our seminar will take place on Sunday 13 February at 11:00 am. It is our pleasure to welcome Yacine Khiar's presentation on the transnational artistic movement "Sape" : From the Congolese streets to the Parisian museums The process of artification of a clothing practice. La Sape...
Cette thèse en sciences de l’éducation s’inscrit dans la foulée des travaux s’intéressant aux facteurs responsables du décrochage des étudiants internationaux en France, le cas d’étudiants congolais décrocheurs à l’Université de Strasbourg. Elle propose une analyse du métier d’étudiant international...
Climate-driven environmental changes bring new risks but also opportunities to populations living along the world's major rivers. Based on ethnoecological fieldwork , in this paper we examine how people living in the cuvette centrale of the Congo basin have adopted flood-recession agriculture on isl...
On the 5th of December, the Water, Peace & Security (WPS) Partnership launches its Global Early Warning Tool. Susanne Schmeier, Emilie Broek, Rolien Sasse, Charles Iceland, Rozemarijn ter Horst, and Karen Meijer discuss how this can contribute to prevent the escalation of water-related conflicts and...
Introduction In his book The River Congo, an 1895 travelogue of his journey to the lower reaches of the Congo River, the British scientist Harry Hamilton Johnston, used an array of tactile adjectives to describe the landscape of the Bas-Congo region, largely unknown to his audience of the late ninet...
Clause-final negation markers (CFNMs), although typologically rare, can be found in a very wide range of languages of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on a sample of 618 African languages, this paper provides an analysis of spatio-temporal language dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa with respect to th...
By Peter Lambertz (IHA-CREPOS, Dakar) In the DR Congo, most highways are made of water. At least half of Congo’s urban centres depend on the country’s extensive network of inland waterways for transporting crops, goods and people. They are the vital arteries connecting many of the country’s ever gro...
Responsable: Peter Lambertz. (Une version française se trouve en bas. Für Deutsch klicke hier). The project investigates Congo's baleinières transportation vessels as well as bureaucratic practices in the field of river transportation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Even if a large part of Cong...
Music is a vital expression in African people’s lives, often characterising their specific cultural background. Many rituals and dances are performed according to the rhythms and melodies of traditional music. In the North of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a group of Bantu peoples called Mongo, w...
Music is a vital expression in African people’s lives, often characterising their specific cultural background. Many rituals and dances are performed according to the rhythms and melodies of traditional music. In the North of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a group of Bantu peoples called Mongo, w...
Music is a vital expression in African people’s lives, often characterising their specific cultural background. Many rituals and dances are performed according to the rhythms and melodies of traditional music. In the North of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a group of Bantu peoples called Mongo, w...