News from the Congolese diaspora

Want to learn more about Congo culture, the people and ancient influences on today’s diaspora?
Here is a list of resources to enable our listeners to deepen their understanding. Check out the list below and thanks for listening.

1. Regina Bakala:
- Rescuing Regina: The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death (Josephe Marie)

2. JJ Bola:
-WORD (JJ Bola)

3. Daniel C Dawson:
-African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo: Tying the Spiritual Knot Principles of Life and Living (Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau)
-Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy (Robert Farris Thompson)

-Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas (Robert Farris Thompson)

-The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds (Robert Farris Thompson)

-Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign (Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz)

-Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora (Linda Heywood)

-Centran Africans, Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of the Americas (Linda Heywood & John Thornton)

-Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (John Thornton)

-The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 (John Thorton)

-The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718 (John Thorton)

-Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture (Maureen Warner Lewis)

-The African Heritage of American English (Winifred K. Vass)

-The Bantu Speaking Heritage of the United States (Winifred K. Vass)

-Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship and Religion the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (James Sweet)

-Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery (Jonathan Young)

-Kongo Across the Waters (Susan Cooksey, Robin Paynor, and Hein Vanhee)

July 28, 2021

Book references that some of the guests have suggested during the shows

Want to learn more about Congo culture, the people and ancient influences on today’s diaspora? Here is a list of resources to enable our listeners to […]
June 28, 2021

Congo Live: The Authentic Voice of the Congolese People

Article initially published on HuffingtonPost.com. Written by Kambale Musavuli. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to the deadliest conflict in the world since […]