The Harn Museum's newest exhibit is a journey through both the time and physical space of a culture whose artistic influence often goes unexplored. “Kongo Across the Waters,” which opened ...

In 1491, the Mwene Kongo, Nzinga a Nkuwu, was baptised close baptism A religious ceremony in which people are welcomed into the Christian faith. into the Catholic close Catholicism The traditions ...

A version of this story appeared in the Dec 4-17, 2015 print issue under the headline: "A lot more than saintly bones may be tied up in reliquaries".

The story of the Congo crisis is complicated but that shouldn't deter the media from covering it. This time last year I was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Dina Ekanga is a Congolese artist who uses nails to create images on board. She was inspired by the Nkisi Nkondi sculptures of the Kongo people, which often show nails embedded into wooden figures.

Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav follow the exploits of a Congolese witch doctor in their debut documentary 'Kongo,' which closed out the ACID sidebar in Cannes.