The artist’s work is key to understanding Congolese culture in the last two decades.
Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji’s work allows us to revisit the DRC’s past and explore how art can help us understand decolonisation.
US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright (L), UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali (R) after a meeting with US President Clinton in 1994 to discuss the situation in Rwanda.
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Many believe that the international community could have acted earlier, to prevent the genocide before it started.
Commemorating the victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide at a memorial in Kigali.
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Rwanda is touted as one of the leading nations when it comes to strides toward gender equality. But the role of female ‘rescuers’ in the 1994 genocide is being downplayed.
A woman carrying a child looks at a wall in Kigali with names of the victims of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
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The 1994 Rwanda genocide has left lasting scars. Children born of sexual violence and mothers have shown immense strength in overcoming their histories of violence.
Kenyan police arrest journalists protesting against a controversial media bill in December 2008.
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Important factors, such as conflict, are central to understanding a country’s degree of press freedom, development and democratisation.
Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi died on 29 February aged 98.
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Ali Hassan Mwinyi successfully drove economic and political reforms in Tanzania, all in the shadow of his predecessor, Julius Nyerere.
A woman at a a counselling centre for rape victims in Paoua, 500km northwest of Bangui in the CAR.
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The birth rate was lower and the death rate markedly higher in areas outside government control in the Central African Republic.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has not faced official investigation or prosecution over his role in Operation Gukurahundi – 40 years on.
Paul Kagame at a commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in April 2023.
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The circumstances, challenges and history of Rwanda are intertwined with Paul Kagame’s own life story.
A minaret from which Turks fired upon Christians in 1909 in Adana stands amid the town’s ruins.
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Recent studies on mass violence have turned the spotlight on the resilience of targeted individuals and communities.
Kagame prefers partnership with successful European football clubs to market Rwanda.
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With Africa’s solid support and his pro-west military and policy adventures, Kagame is able to take on critics.
Croat leaders Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic stand trial at the Hague in 2013.
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The International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have tried dozens of individuals. An investigation looks at how the accused experienced these trials.
An Orthodox Jewish man looks at photographs of Jews murdered during the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel.
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There isn’t one, clear-cut way to prevent genocide. But there are effective methods of prevention that governments can take.
Troops drive through Goma in eastern DRC in November 2022.
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Consolidating peace efforts across the vast territory has proved difficult for close to three decades. Scholars explain why.
Paul Rusesabagina at the Supreme Court in Kigali, Rwanda, in February 2021.
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Rwanda has rebuffed international pressure to release Paul Rusesabagina, a man made famous by Hollywood.
Rwandan president Paul Kagame speaks during a governance event in the US.
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The US has become one of Rwanda’s staunchest defenders.
Canada’s residential school system has had a lasting effect on First Nations communities.
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When a patriarchal society is combined with a history of colonialism, women in that country are at heightened risk of gender-based violence.
Somalia is one of East Africa’s terrorism hotspots.
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All terrorism in the region has domestic origins but is linked to regional and international events.
A Tigrayan refugee places a cross made from twigs on the banks of a river marking the border between Ethiopia and Sudan where bodies frequently wash up.
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Domestic and geopolitical factors mean that the Ethiopian conflict has enough fuel to burn for some time.
A worker carries a water container at a newly installed internally displaced person camp in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia.
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Africa needs to embrace a new approach that focuses on what countries in an embattled region – as a ‘community’ of regional states – can do to intervene.