Diane Mbombo-Tite speaks five languages: French, Swahili, Lingala, Tshiluba and English. She dreams in French. Growing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, her mother spoke to her father in ...

GALESBURG — The city of Galesburg will hold its very first Lipanda Day, a celebration focused on Congolese “culture and integration,” on Saturday, July 2. The event will take place from 2-6 p.m. in ...

This year, he's finally back to where he was in the Congo. At Yankee Ridge, which hosts a French-English dual language program, he teaches French grammar to children from a variety of grades. He's ...

It's hard to watch the students learning to dance in the small Binghampton church without smiling. The room is dark, and the lack of strong central air conditioning makes it a little hot. But the ...

The newest faculty member to join Colorado Mountain College’s teacher education program comes to his position by way of the Republic of the Congo. Jean Kaya came to the U.S. as a Fulbright Foreign ...

I am from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the very center of Africa. In my home country at least 200 languages are spoken, but only four are recognized as national languages - Lingala, ...

Dr. Jean Kaya took a circuitous route to Colorado Mountain College. Hailing from the Republic of the Congo, Kaya matriculated to the United States as a Fulbright scholar and has continued his ...

The crisis in eastern Congo traces back to the aftermath of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, after which nearly 2 million Hutu ...

On Thursday, 4 December, in Washington DC, the presidents of DRC and Rwanda signed a peace deal meant to end a three-decade conflict – but the atmosphere betrayed any sense of a harmonious conclusion.