The two performers are taking part in the KinAct Festival, an annual arts event held in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. By making fantastical costumes out of bottlecaps ...

Congolese refugees in Rubondo B village in ... Others were bed sheets, shirts, dresses, jackets, pairs of trousers, and shorts. The first port of call was the Rubondo sub-base camp, where RWC ...

racks of vibrant African dresses, and stacks of cassava flour bags. Two men chat in Swahili near the cash registers. The West Michigan shop is a long way from the battlefields of Congo's central ...

Sapeurs are members of La Sape, the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People), who dress up fashionably in Brazzaville and Kinshasa.

"I would pass through the [Congolese] neighborhood ... in his brain as "the blueprint of what an elegant African person dresses like." Patrick has been dancing as long as he can remember, starting ...

The Congolese men drive Kenyan women crazy simply because they know how to dress, sing and dance. Period. Those who can’t sing at least masquerade as upcoming musicians. When the fellas strut ...