Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Style – How Two Dictators Shaped the DRC’s Art, Architecture and Monuments

5th March 2024
[The Conversation Africa] What kind of art is left behind by totalitarian regimes? A new free-to-read book called Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence explores the visual culture, architecture and heritage sites of the country today known as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It does so by exploring two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Colony (1908-1960) and Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaire, established when he seized power in a military coup in 1965 after five years of

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