(Originally published on March 18th, 2013) It’s Monday morning and there’s energy in the air in Pointe-Noire, a city on […]
It’s Monday morning and there’s energy in the air in Pointe-Noire, a city on the coast of Congo-Brazzaville. The honking […]
It’s 4 p.m. and the Moungali market in Brazzaville is slowly emptying. Blanche Bouanga is packing up her produce while […]
In a hangar at the bus station in Pointe-Noire, Nkaya Mankou sits in silence. He’s about to get into a […]
Joachim Mouyala Mbemba is a farmer in the Boko district of the Pool region in Congo-Brazzaville. He grows onions, tomatoes, […]
In Imbimi, a village in northern Congo, access to water is the community’s main problem. Lydia Makouala is a housewife and […]
Thirty-five-year-old Yvonne Nsayi is no ordinary woman. She is a mother of four, a farmer, a donut seller, and the promoter […]
Simone Botéké is a farmer who lives in Sembola. She is from the people often referred to as pygmies, who are […]
Bomassa is a village deep in the forests of northern Congo. Walking along the path towards the village, a visitor is […]
The normally calm tea-producing hills of Burundi lost their calm in recent months. The reason: refusal by tea producers to sell […]