Museum shows of African tribal art often suffer from double binds of aesthetics and ethnography: objects that stun but bewilder and educational material that informs but devitalizes. Not “Kongo: Power ...

Former WBO Global welterweight champion Chris ‘2 Slick’ Kongo kicks off 2022 by announcing that he has signed a multi-fight promotional deal with BOXXER and aims to get back into world title ...

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. By Jordan Mintzer From Jim ...

This dissertation brings together African and European historical documents and art objects to examine the correlated role of artistic form and religious thought in the cross-cultural encounter ...

Only 20 Mangaakas are left in the world, so it was a coup for curator Alisa LaGamma when she acquired one of the fearsome Kongo power figures for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008. Carved in wood ...

A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her ...

Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi: Mangaaka), Kongo peoples, Yombe group, Chiloango River region, Democratic Republic of the Congo (photo by Peter Zeray, © RMCA ...

After an eye poke brought their first meeting to an unsatisfying end in less than a round, Bellator heavyweight Ryan Bader was looking to clearly assert his dominance against challenger Cheick Kongo ...

Kongo aka Cyril Phan has never been particular about the surface he leaves his mark on, whether wall, canvas, shop window, trunk, dress, bag, scarf, jewelry, champagne bottle, humidor, car or even ...