As Rwanda commemorates its independence, a historian and a political analyst argue that the independence granted on July 1, 1962, was partial and served colonial interests rather than truly liberating ...

Belgium’s interests in DR Congo extend beyond the current crisis and the destabilisation of Rwanda. According to research, these interests are deeply rooted in a colonial-era agenda aimed at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fighters from the M23 rebel group have seized swathes of territory and captured two cities in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The repertoire of most Congolese popular painting in the 1970s involved the theme of colone belge ("Belgian colony"): an African policeman preparing to beat a prone African prisoner, while under the ...