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  • PoetryKasalaAnonymous · 1900not translated into EnglishThe genre was described as early as 1936 in a Belgian colonial journal, then published in a bilingual edition in 1969.Literature
  • NarrativeLes Aventures de Ngoy, héros légendaire des BangalaAntoine-Roger Bolamba · 1940not translated into EnglishAt the end of the thirties, a young clerk from Boma wins a literary competition organised in Léopoldville for Congolese authors.Literature
  • NovelNgandoPaul Lomami-Tshibamba · 1948not translated into EnglishA tale of sorcery and the river that became a novel, written in the capital of the Belgian Congo just after the war.Literature
  • NovelSans rancuneThomas Kanza · 1965not translated into EnglishThe first lay Congolese student in Europe, in a novel drawn for the most part from life.Literature
  • NovelBetween TidesEntre les eauxV. Y. Mudimbe · 1973An African priest torn between the Church and revolution, in the first novel of a great Congolese thinker.Literature
  • NovelBandokiZamenga Batukezanga · 1973not translated into EnglishA Kongo village ravaged by disease looks for sorcerers, in a popular novel from Kinshasa.Literature
  • PoetryKasala, chant héroïque lubaClémentine Nzuji · 1974not translated into EnglishA Congolese poet and linguist transcribes and translates the praise songs of the Luba clans of Kasai.Literature
  • NarrativeAhata, suivi du Récit de la DamnéeMweya Tol'ande · 1976not translated into EnglishA young journalist from Kinshasa gives voice to a woman abandoned by her fiancé, who has gone to study far away.Literature
  • CinemaLife Is RosyLa Vie est belleDieudonné Mweze Ngangura and Benoît Lamy · 1987A filmmaker from Bukavu and a Belgian director make Papa Wemba the hero of a musical comedy in Kinshasa.Cinema
  • CinemaPerle noireJoseph Kumbela · 1994A Zairean actor based in Switzerland steps behind the camera with a dramatic comedy about a couple and money.Cinema
  • CinemaAsphalt TribeMacadam tribuJosé Laplaine · 1996Unable to shoot in Kinshasa, a Zairean filmmaker films two brothers, their mother and their neighbourhood in Mali, in a nameless metropolis.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Draughtsmen ClashLe Damier – Papa national oyé !Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda · 1996A Congolese filmmaker turns a game of draughts between a president for life and a vagrant into a satire of power.Cinema
  • CinemaMobutu, King of ZaireMobutu, roi du ZaïreThierry Michel · 1999After the fall of the Zairean dictator, a Belgian documentary maker reconstructs, archive by archive, his thirty-two years in power.Cinema