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Vanhee, Hein. "Territoriale Culten in West-Congo: Verdwijning of Transformatie?" Afrika Focus 14, no. 1 (February 11, 1998): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-01401008.

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Territorial Cults in West-Congo: Vanished or Transformed? This paper discusses some of the key issues in my current research on the history of the relationship between society, tradition and Christianity in the west of Congo-Kinshasa over the last century. My focus here is on the process of progressive transformation of the nineteenth-century territorial cults and the structural continuity which is apparent in the development of the Congolese Christian church in the area. In presenting some of my working hypotheses I am suggesting that after an initial period of open hostility towards the first missionaries, BaKongo became aware – ‘empirically’ as it were – of the fact that new ways were to be explored in order to compete with the challenges of Western colonialism and the forces of modernity and globalisation. In this regard, the history of religious life in West Congo can be described as a progressive attempt to regain control over the relations between human society and the supernatural world.

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de Villers, Gauthier. "Confusion politique au Congo-Kinshasa." Canadian Journal of African Studies 33, no. 2/3 (1999): 432. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/486271.

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Mararo, Bucyalimwe. "Land, Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Masisi (Congo-Kinshasa), 1940s-1994." International Journal of African Historical Studies 30, no. 3 (1997): 503. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220574.

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Bobineau, Julien. "The Historical Taboo: Colonial Discourses and Postcolonial Identities in Belgium." Werkwinkel 12, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 107–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/werk-2017-0007.

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Abstract This article examines so-called colonial discourses in Belgium related to the former Sub-Saharan colony owned by Leopold II of Belgium which today is known as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) or the Congo-Kinshasa. Having introduced the colonial history of the DR Congo from the 15th century until 1910, the study starts with a discussion of Van den Braembussche’s concept of a ‘historical taboo’ and four ways of engaging with such implicit interdictions. Finally, an empirical analysis of colonial discourses in Belgium from the 1890s until today will be presented in conjunction with Belgium’s linguistic-cultural division, taking into account age-related divergence.

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Lambertz, Peter. "Japanese divine light in Kinshasa: transcultural resonance and critique in the religiously multiple city." Critical Research on Religion 9, no. 2 (January 21, 2021): 191–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050303220986981.

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The Japanese “new religions” ( Shin Shūkyō) active in Kinshasa (DR Congo) nearly all perform healing through the channeling of invisible divine light. In the case of Sekai Kyūseikyō (Church of World Messianity), the light of Johrei cannot be visually apprehended, but is worn as an invisible aura on the practitioner’s body. This article discusses the trans-cultural resonances between Japan and Central Africa regarding the ontology of spiritual force, regimes of subjectivity, and the gradual embodiment of Johrei divine light as a protection against (suspicions of) witchcraft. Meanwhile, I argue that religious multiplicity in urban Africa encourages cultural reflexivity about concepts of health and healing, self-responsibility, and Pentecostal suspicion-mongering of occult sciences. Thus, Johrei divine light not only feeds into a longstanding local tradition of spiritual healing; within the religiously multiple city, it is also a discursive space for, and an experience and performance of, emic critique.

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Kayongo, Léon Nguapitshi. "Kimbanguism: Its Present Christian Doctrine and the Problems Raised by it." Exchange 34, no. 3 (2005): 227–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254305774258672.

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AbstractAlthough the present publication does completely meet the requirements for an academic article, we have decided to publish it because of the insights it provides into the latest developments within the Kimbanguist Church in Congo. The author is a theologian who was Dean of the Kimbanguist Faculty of Theology in Lutendele near Kinshasa until mid 2003. He was deeply involved in the problems that arose in the beginning of the 21st century. He is also a person who is able to explain diligently the views of the different parties in the Kimbanguist Church. However, due to his own involvement in these developments the article has rather the character of a document written by a well-educated participant observer, who is very familiar with his subject, than that of a publication authored by a scholar who does his utmost to remain neutral.The document explains the theological, religious and contextual backdrops of the doctrine of the Trinity developed in the Kimbanguist Church, for in this church the persons of the Trinity are narrowly connected with the founder of the church and his family. Since 2001 these connections were even made more intense. Interestingly there are some Biblical reasons for it as well, but nonetheless the church seems to loose doctrinal familiarity with the other churches in the world through these new evolutions.

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Lusey, Hendrew, Miguel San Sebastian, Monica Christianson, Lars Dahlgren, and Kerstin E. Edin. "Conflicting discourses of church youths on masculinity and sexuality in the context of HIV in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo." SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS 11, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 84–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2014.930695.

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Garrard, David J. "The Protestant Church in Congo: The Mobutu Years and their Impact." Journal of Religion in Africa 43, no. 2 (2013): 131–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12341246.

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Abstract This paper examines the Protestant Church in Congo/Zaire during the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko. It reviews its origins as a loose affiliation of denominations during the days of the Belgian colony and the changes which came about under Bokeleale—its driving force and central figure. His goal was to do away with the autonomy of the denominations and create a super Protestant Church in the nation. With the help of government legislation, forced union and centralisation took place. It is the purpose here to highlight some of the forces that were at work and to decide what the consequences were in this marriage of the Protestant Church and the state in Zaire. Not all Protestants yielded to the pressures of state and church and by the 1990s new expressions of faith were emerging in the nation. What then were the outcomes?

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Kenny, Gale, and Tisa Wenger. "Church, State, and “Native Liberty” in the Belgian Congo." Comparative Studies in Society and History 62, no. 1 (January 2020): 156–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417519000446.

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AbstractThis essay describes a religious freedom controversy that developed between the world wars in the Belgian colony of the Congo, where Protestant missionaries complained that Catholic priests were abusing Congolese Protestants and that the Belgian government favored the Catholics. The history of this campaign demonstrates how humanitarian discourses of religious freedom—and with them competing configurations of church and state—took shape in colonial contexts. From the beginnings of the European scramble for Africa, Protestant and Catholic missionaries had helped formulate the “civilizing” mission and the humanitarian policies—against slavery, for free trade, and for religious freedom—that served to justify the European and U.S. empires of the time. Protestant missionaries in the Congo challenged the privileges granted to Catholic institutions by appealing to religious freedom guarantees in colonial and international law. In response, Belgian authorities and Catholic missionaries elaborated a church-state arrangement that limited “foreign” missions in the name of Belgian national unity. Both groups, however, rejected Native Congolese religious movements—which refused the authority of the colonial church(es) along with the colonial state—as “political” and so beyond the bounds of legitimate “religion.” Our analysis shows how competing configurations of church and state emerged dialogically in this colonial context and how alternative Congolese movements ultimately challenged Belgian colonial rule.

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Jewsiewicki, Bogumil. "Une societe urbaine "moderne" et ses representations: la peinture populaire a Kinshasa (Congo) (1960-2000)." Le Mouvement social, no. 204 (July 2003): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3779940.

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Jewsiewicki, Bogumil. "Une société urbaine « moderne » et ses représentations : la peinture populaire à Kinshasa (Congo) (1960-2000)." Le Mouvement Social 204, no. 3 (2003): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/lms.204.0131.

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Wild-Wood, Emma. "An Introduction to an Oral History and Archive Project by the Anglican Church of Congo." History in Africa 28 (2001): 445–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172229.

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Congo has for decades faced sustained neglect of all its institutions and now suffers a protracted conflict. Most Congolese attempt to survive hunger, sickness, and war. In this context the preservation of historical information is fraught with difficulties. Nevertheless, the oral history and archive project detailed in this paper set out to collect historical sources from one Christian denomination in Congo. It is but a small part of a huge depository of historical data held by churches in the country.Mission and Church bodies have significantly contributed to nation-building and the establishment of social structures throughout the twentieth century. In Congo the churches continue to run many of the schools, hospitals, and community development programs in the country and provide a conduit for relief aid. They are involved in the daily negotiations for survival on which life depends. While there is significant overlapping of religious adherence between ‘traditional’ beliefs, Christianity, and Islam, over 90% of the population acknowledge allegiance to a Christian denomination. For this reason church bodies provide invaluable resources to the historian. This project sought not only to protect the bureaucratic documents produced by one particular denomination, but to gather oral testimonies from a wide range of individuals connected with that church in order to begin a process of historical reflection. When finally collated and cataloged, it will be of use to Africanists and social anthropologists interested in the eastern half of Congo, as well as those with a particular interest in church history in Africa.

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Shyllon, Folarin. "Regional Workshop on the Fight against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property: Cape Town, South Africa, September 27–30, 2004." International Journal of Cultural Property 12, no. 4 (November 2005): 499–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739105050356.

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In the last decade of the twentieth century three UNESCO/ICOM regional workshops were held in Africa (Arusha, Tanzania in 1993, Bamako, Mali in 1994 and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1996) on the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property. In the first decade of this century already two UNESCO regional workshops have been held in Africa on the same theme. The first was held in Abuja, Nigeria in 2003, and the second, which is the focus of this report, in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2004.

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Rousseau, Cecile, Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada, and Marie-Claire Rufagari. "Traumatismes et separations familiales prolongees chez les refugies du Congo-Kinshasa etablis a Montreal." Canadian Journal of African Studies 33, no. 2/3 (1999): 584. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/486278.

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Rousseau, Cécile, Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada, and Marie-Claire Rufagari. "Traumatismes et séparations familiales prolongées chez les réfugiés du Congo-Kinshasa établis à Montréal." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines 33, no. 2-3 (January 1999): 584–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00083968.1999.10751175.

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O'Malley, Alanna. "The Simba Rebellion, the Cold War, and the Stanleyville Hostages in the Congo." Journal of Cold War Studies 23, no. 2 (2021): 75–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00985.

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Abstract In late October 1964, nearly 1,000 European and U.S. citizens were taken hostage by rebel forces in Stanleyville in northern Congo as part of an attempt to create the “People’s Republic of Congo,” an opposition regime designed to rival the pro-Western government in the capital Léopoldville (now Kinshasa). The hostages were captured to use as leverage against the advancing Armée Nationale Congolaise (ANC), led by white mercenaries as part of a Western-backed military effort to crush the rebellion. In response, Belgium and the United States launched a military intervention to rescue their citizens on 24 November 1964, publicly justifying the incursion on humanitarian grounds. In reality, the main purpose was to crush the rebellion and secure Western interests in Congo. The intervention reflected a cavalier attitude toward sovereignty, international law, and the use of force in postcolonial Africa and had the adverse effect of discrediting humanitarian reasoning as a basis for military intervention until the end of the Cold War. The massacre of tens of thousands of Congolese in Stanleyville was a unique moment in which African countries united in their criticism of Western policies and demanded firmer sovereignty in the postcolonial world.

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Marriage, Zoë. "The African Stakes of the Congo War The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in Kinshasa." Historical Materialism 16, no. 1 (2008): 225–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920608x276378.

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Kim, Kwang-Su. "Contextualising Historical and Cultural Identities with Exhibitions of the New National Museum in the Democratic Republic of Congo." Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society 8, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v8i2.328.

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A new National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MNRDC) was established as a cultural Official Development Assistant (ODA) project by the Korean government. It opened on 23 November 2019 in Kinshasa. The objectives of the new museum are to promote the history and culture of various ethnic groups, protect heritage and exhibit cultural diversity in order to unify the people and the nation, and educate the public about the DRC history and culture. However, the exhibitions do not meet the objectives of the National Museum nor do they contextualise the history and cultural identity of the DRC. In order for the MNRDC to function as a national museum or a central national museum, its exhibition must be reconstructed in such a way that meets its purposes while historical artefacts accurately representing the DRC’s history must be displayed.

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Prunier, Gérard. "The Catholic Church and the Kivu Conflict." Journal of Religion in Africa 31, no. 2 (2001): 139–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006601x00103.

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AbstractThis paper examines the role of the Catholic Church in the armed conflict that has engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 1993. The conflict itself has two dimensions. Since 1996 the DRC has been at the centre of a major war that has spilled well beyond its borders, embroiling neighbouring states and others further afield. Less well known is the local struggle, in the eastern part of the country in the two provinces of North and South Kivu, which began three years earlier. While having a dynamic of its own, Kivu's fate has become entwined in the wider international conflict. Given its large constituency and immense wealth and infrastructure, the Catholic Church has come to wield enormous influence in the DRC, particularly in the context of a declining state. It was a key player in the movement for democratisation in the early 1990s and more recently it has sought to offer moral guidance on the conflict. But its attempts to adopt a superior moral outlook have been severely tested by the fact that its clergy are now thoroughly zairianised, and have come to embody the ethnic and political prejudices of their respective communities.

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Maman, Suzanne, Rebecca Cathcart, Gillian Burkhardt, Serge Omba, and Frieda Behets. "The role of religion in HIV-positive women's disclosure experiences and coping strategies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo." Social Science & Medicine 68, no. 5 (March 2009): 965–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.12.028.

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Ndille, Roland. "Joshua Dibundu, Lotin Same, and the Native Baptist Church: Resistance and Nationalism in Cameroon’s History of Religion." Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society 8, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v8i2.309.

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This article sets out to present Joshua Dibundu and Lotin Same, two clergymen and contemporaries of John Chilembwe of Nyasaland and Simon Kibangu of the Congo, who stood out against European missionary pressure and colonial administrative oppression in an effort to establish and sustain the first African Independent Church (AIC) in Cameroon: the Native Baptist Church (NBC). I argue in this article that unlike the Cameroon kings and chiefs who resisted European occupation of the territory, and nationalists who fought for independence, the leaders of the Native Baptist Church represent another type of early nationalist and change-oriented agents who deserve their place in the historiography of the country. I have privileged the use of archival documents, structured interviews and some critical empirical literature to establish this account.

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Matangila, Junior Rika, Ritha Kibambe Nyembu, Gloire Mosala Telo, Christian Djuba Ngoy, Taty Msueun Sakobo, Joel Mbembo Massolo, Blandine Mbo Muyembe, et al. "Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Clinique Ngaliema, a public hospital in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A retrospective cohort study." PLOS ONE 15, no. 12 (December 18, 2020): e0244272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244272.

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Objectives To describe the clinical characteristics of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 at Clinique Ngaliema, a public hospital, in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Methods This retrospective study analyzed medical records including socio-demographics, past medical history, clinical manifestation, comorbidities, laboratory data, treatment and disease outcome of 160 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, with confirmed result of SARS-CoV-2 viral infection. Results The median age of patients was 54 years (IQR: 38–64), and there was no significant gender difference (51% of male). The most common comorbidities were hypertension (55 [34%]), diabetes (31 [19%]) and obesity (13 [8%]). Fever (93 [58%]), cough (92 [57%]), fatigue (87 [54%]), shortness of breath (72 [45%]) and myalgia (33 [21%]) were the most common symptoms, upon admission. Patients were categorized into mild (92 [57%]), moderate (19 [12%]) and severe (49 [31%]). Severe patients were older and were more likely to have comorbidities, compared to mild ones. The majority of patients (92% [147 of 160]) patients received hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine phosphate. Regression model revealed that older age, lower SpO2, higher heart rate and elevated AST at admission were all risk factors associated with in-hospital death. The prevalence of COVID-19 and malaria co-infection was 0.63% and 70 (44%) of all patients received antimalarial treatment before hospitalization. Conclusion Our findings indicated that the epidemiological and clinical feature of COVID-19 patients in Kinshasa are broadly similar to previous reports from other settings. Older age, lower SpO2, tachycardia, and elevated AST could help to identify patients at higher risk of death at an early stage of the illness. Plasmodium spp co-infection was not common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

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Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Remembering and Suffering: Memory and Shifting Allegiances in the Angolan Tokoist Church." Exchange 38, no. 2 (2009): 161–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254309x425391.

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AbstractIn this article I offer a historical and ethnographic account of the Angolan 'Tokoist church'. I start by underlining the reasons behind its 'forgotten history' in terms of academic debates on African Christianity, and then discuss its place within the 'Congo prophet paradigm'. This historical approach opens ground for the discussion between the different doctrinal and ideological tensions (the place of Bakongo ethnicity and Angolan nationality) that motivated its particular institutional growth — tensions and conflicts that are still in play in the recent developments of the church in Angola. Finally, I will argue that the recent transformation of the church into a transnational venture turned out to be a strategy for the overcoming of those tensions.

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Wild-Wood, Emma, and Peter Wood. "'One Day we Will Sing in God's Home': Hymns and Songs Sung in the Anglican Church in North-East Congo (drc)." Journal of Religion in Africa 34, no. 1-2 (2004): 145–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006604323056750.

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Abstract'Songs preach a lot' claim members of the Anglican Church in North-East Congo (DRC). This article analyses what these songs preach and how they convey their message. It examines the theology of the texts as sung in their musical and social context. The songs fall into two broad categories: western hymns translated by missionaries and contemporary songs often composed locally or nationally. They have different but overlapping theologies and functions within worship. Heaven emerges as a central motif in both categories, presenting an eschatological oral theology, which offers comfort, escape and social comment.

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Van Acker, Sifra, Sara Pacchiarotti, Edmond De Langhe, and Koen Bostoen. "Ancient West-Coastal Bantu Banana Vocabulary: Testing Linguistic Method for Reconstructing Musa History in Africa." Studies in African Linguistics 50, no. 2 (September 19, 2021): 285–325. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v50i2.122286.

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Lexical data has been key in attempts to reconstruct the early history of the banana (Musa sp.) in Africa. Previous language-based approaches to the introduction and dispersal of this staple crop of Asian origin have suffered from the absence of well-established genealogical classifications and inadequate historical-linguistic analysis. We therefore focus in this article on West-Coastal Bantu (WCB), one specific branch within the Bantu family whose genealogy and diachronic phonology are well established. We reconstruct three distinct banana terms to Proto-West-Coastal Bantu (PWCB), i.e. *dɪ̀‑ŋkòndò/*mà‑ŋkòndò ‘plantain’, *dɪ̀‑ŋkò/*mà‑ŋkò ‘plantain’ and *kɪ̀‑túká/*bì‑túká ‘bunch of bananas’. From this new historical-linguistic evidence we infer that AAB Plantains, one of Africa’s two major cultivar subgroups, already played a key role in the subsistence economy of the first Bantu speakers who assumedly migrated south of the rainforest around 2500 years ago. We furthermore analyze four innovations that emerged after WCB started to spread from its interior homeland in the Kasai-Kamtsha region of Congo-Kinshasa towards the Atlantic coast, i.e. dɪ̀‑kòndè ‘plantain’, kɪ̀‑tébè ‘starchy banana’, banga ‘False Horn plantain’, and dɪ̀‑tòtò ‘sweet banana’. Finally, we assess the historical implications of these lexical retentions and innovations both within and beyond WCB and sketch some perspectives for future lexicon-based banana research.

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Parris, George E. "Mechanism and history of evolution of symbiotic HIV strains into lethal pandemic strains: The key event may have been a 1927 trial of pamaquine in Leopoldville (Kinshasa), Congo." Medical Hypotheses 69, no. 4 (January 2007): 838–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2007.01.073.

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Lebughe, P., K. De Vlam, R. Westhovens, J. M. Mbuyi-Muamba, and J. J. Malemba. "AB0697 PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT CRITERIA SETS FOR INFLAMMATORY BACK PAIN IN PATIENTS WITH AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 79, Suppl 1 (June 2020): 1644–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-eular.4896.

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Background:Inflammatory back pain (IBP) is the most prominent clinical feature for an early diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis. The performance of the criteria sets for IBP has not yet been assessed in clinical practice in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Objectives:To assess and to compare the performance of different IBP criteria sets in axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) outpatients attending the rheumatology unit of the University Hospital of Kinshasa, DRC.Methods:One hundred and eight Congolese outpatients with axial SpA defined by rheumatologist’s clinical judgment were included in the spondyloarthritis cohort of the University Hospital of Kinshasa from March 1st2015 to February 28, 2017. Calin criteria, Berlin criteria and ASAS criteria sets for IBP were performed to assess their performance against clinical judgment. Detailed history, clinical examination and imaging of sacroiliac joints by plain radiography were obtained. Sacroiliac joint radiographic lesions were scored with the modified New York criteria. Magnetic resonance imaging and HLA B27 were not performed. Fifty additional patients with a diagnosis of chronic (>3 months) mechanical low back pain (MLBP) were included as control group. The performance of each item and different criterias was evaluated using sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratio (LR). Baseline characteristics of the mechanical and inflammatory back pain cohorts were compared with chi-square or Student t tests as appropriate.Results:The mean age was 43.8±15.1 years in SpA patients versus 62.4±9.1 years in controls (MLBP patients) with respective sex ratio (M/F) of 1/0.8 and 1/2.1. There were significantly more male patients in the ankylosing spondylitis (AS) group than in the non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis group (p<0.01). Among the criteria sets, Calin criteria showed the best sensitivity (92.6%) while the Berlin criteria showed the best specificity (97.6%) in the detection of IBP patients. The new ASAS criteria for IBP compared to the two previous criteria sets did not show good sensitivity nor specificity (sensivity 80%, specificity 62%, LR+ 1.05 (0.90 – 1.22), LR- 0.52 (0.39 – 0.69), 95%CI).Conclusion:The Calin criteria set would be useful for epidemiological and clinical studies in DRC. The ASAS criteria set for IBP is not better than other criteria sets in the screening of IBP for Congolese patients with axSpA.References:[1]Heuft-Dorenbosch L, Landewe R, Weijers R et al.Performance of various criteria sets in patients with inflammatory back pain of short duration; the Maastricht early spondyloarthritis clinic Ann Rheum Dis 2007;66:92–98. doi: 10.1136/ard.2006.053918[2]Michele C. Battié M, LINDA J. CARROLL et al. Preliminary Validation of a Self-reported Screening Questionnaire for Inflammatory Back Pain. J Rheumatol 2012;39;822-829[3]Poddubnyy D, Callhoff J, Spiller I, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of inflammatory back pain for axial spondyloarthritis in rheumatological care.RMD Open. 2018;4(2):e000825. Published 2018 Dec 5. doi:10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000825[4]Wang R, Crowson CS, Wright K, Ward MM. Clinical Evolution in Patients With New-Onset Inflammatory Back Pain: A Population-Based Cohort Study.Arthritis Rheumatol. 2018;70(7):1049–1055. doi:10.1002/art.40460Disclosure of Interests:Pierrot Lebughe: None declared, Kurt de Vlam Grant/research support from: Celgene, Eli Lilly, Pfizer Inc, Consultant of: AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Galapagos, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Pfizer Inc, UCB, Rene Westhovens Grant/research support from: Celltrion Inc, Galapagos, Gilead, Consultant of: Celltrion Inc, Galapagos, Gilead, Speakers bureau: Celltrion Inc, Galapagos, Gilead, Jean-Marie Mbuyi-Muamba: None declared, Jean-Jacques Malemba: None declared

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Martin, Phyllis M. "Celebrating the Ordinary: Church, Empire and Gender in the Life of Mere Marie-Michelle Dedie(Senegal, Congo, 1882-1931)." Gender History 16, no. 2 (August 2004): 289–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.00342.x.

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Bratcher, Anna, Nicole A. Hoff, Reena H. Doshi, Adva Gadoth, Megan Halbrook, Patrick Mukadi, Kamy Musene, et al. "Zoonotic risk factors associated with seroprevalence of Ebola virus GP antibodies in the absence of diagnosed Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15, no. 8 (August 12, 2021): e0009566. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009566.

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Background Ebola virus (EBOV) is a zoonotic filovirus spread through exposure to infected bodily fluids of a human or animal. Though EBOV is capable of causing severe disease, referred to as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), individuals who have never been diagnosed with confirmed, probable or suspected EVD can have detectable EBOV antigen-specific antibodies in their blood. This study aims to identify risk factors associated with detectable antibody levels in the absence of an EVD diagnosis. Methodology Data was collected from September 2015 to August 2017 from 1,366 consenting individuals across four study sites in the DRC (Boende, Kabondo-Dianda, Kikwit, and Yambuku). Seroreactivity was determined to EBOV GP IgG using Zaire Ebola Virus Glycoprotein (EBOV GP antigen) ELISA kits (Alpha Diagnostic International, Inc.) in Kinshasa, DRC; any result above 4.7 units/mL was considered seroreactive. Among the respondents, 113 (8.3%) were considered seroreactive. Several zoonotic exposures were associated with EBOV seroreactivity after controlling for age, sex, healthcare worker status, location, and history of contact with an EVD case, namely: ever having contact with bats, ever having contact with rodents, and ever eating non-human primate meat. Contact with monkeys or non-human primates was not associated with seroreactivity. Conclusions This analysis suggests that some zoonotic exposures that have been linked to EVD outbreaks can also be associated with EBOV GP seroreactivity in the absence of diagnosed EVD. Future investigations should seek to clarify the relationships between zoonotic exposures, seroreactivity, asymptomatic infection, and EVD.

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Gryseels, Sophie, Thomas D. Watts, Jean-Marie Kabongo Mpolesha, Brendan B. Larsen, Philippe Lemey, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, Dirk E. Teuwen, and Michael Worobey. "A near full-length HIV-1 genome from 1966 recovered from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 22 (May 19, 2020): 12222–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913682117.

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With very little direct biological data of HIV-1 from before the 1980s, far-reaching evolutionary and epidemiological inferences regarding the long prediscovery phase of this pandemic are based on extrapolations by phylodynamic models of HIV-1 genomic sequences gathered mostly over recent decades. Here, using a very sensitive multiplex RT-PCR assay, we screened 1,645 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue specimens collected for pathology diagnostics in Central Africa between 1958 and 1966. We report the near-complete viral genome in one HIV-1 positive specimen from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), from 1966 (“DRC66”)—a nonrecombinant sister lineage to subtype C that constitutes the oldest HIV-1 near full-length genome recovered to date. Root-to-tip plots showed the DRC66 sequence is not an outlier as would be expected if dating estimates from more recent genomes were systematically biased; and inclusion of the DRC66 sequence in tip-dated BEAST analyses did not significantly alter root and internal node age estimates based on post-1978 HIV-1 sequences. There was larger variation in divergence time estimates among datasets that were subsamples of the available HIV-1 genomes from 1978 to 2014, showing the inherent phylogenetic stochasticity across subsets of the real HIV-1 diversity. Our phylogenetic analyses date the origin of the pandemic lineage of HIV-1 to a time period around the turn of the 20th century (1881 to 1918). In conclusion, this unique archival HIV-1 sequence provides direct genomic insight into HIV-1 in 1960s DRC, and, as an ancient-DNA calibrator, it validates our understanding of HIV-1 evolutionary history.

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Vellut, Jean-Luc. "New Publication About the C.I.C.M. Archives." History in Africa 24 (January 1997): 433–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172044.

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The Scheut Archive is housed in a remote Roman suburb. Intriguingly enough, it was not mentioned in Lajos Pàsztor's repertory of church archives in Italy, vol. 7 of the UNESCO series, Guide to the Sources of the History of Africa, published in 1983. One explanation for this neglect might be that the archive was not fully operational by then. These circumstances no doubt partly explain why, despite exemplary conservation and classification, this collection has up to now been insufficiently tapped by scholars. Contributing factors may have been the discredit unfortunately thrown on traditional written sources by a number of modern “Africanists,” as well as widespread ignorance among English-speaking scholars of the intricacies of Roman Catholic bureaucracies. In fact, whatever their cultural background, historians wanting to burrow their way into the massive collection of Scheut papers should brace themselves for a period of initiation in the intricacies of two overlapping multinational Church organizations.On the one hand, the Scheut congregation, as a separate institution, was established in 1862. It had its headquarters at Scheut, on the outskirts of Brussels, with a superior general in charge. It also had representation in Rome, but its main activities were carried out in its territorial branches (“provinces”) established first in the Far East and later in the Congo, each under the authority of a provincial. This organization maintained a dense internal and external network of communication within the hierarchy itself, as well as with government administrations, other religious bodies, etc. Like any organization, it knew rules and procedures, but also conflicts among various power blocs.

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Lorenz, Denise. "Images de l’Afrique et du Congo/Zaïre dans les lettres françaises de Belgique et alentour. Actes du colloque international de Louvain-la-Neuve (4-6 février 1993) édités par Pierre Haien et János Riesz. (Bruxelles: Textyles-éditions/Kinshasa: Ed. du Trottoir, 1993) 372 pages. ISBN 2-87277-004-6." Matatu 13-14, no. 1 (April 26, 1995): 379–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000148.

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Carney, J. J. "Church, State and colonialism in southeastern Congo, 1890–1962. By Reuben A. Loffman. (Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series.) Pp. xxii + 281 incl. frontispiece and 13 figs. Cham: Springer Nature, 2019. £69.99. 978 3 030 17379 1 - Catholicism and the making of politics in central Mozambique, 1940–1986. By Eric Morier-Genoud. (Studies in African History and the Diaspora.) Pp. xviii + 245 incl. 16 figs and 11 tables. Woodbridge–Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2019. £95. 978 1 58046 941 8; 1092 5228." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 71, no. 4 (October 2020): 889–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046920001220.

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Vanhee, Hein. "Territorial Cults in West-Congo: Vanished or Transformed?" Afrika Focus 14, no. 1 (March 28, 1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/af.v14i1.5585.

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This paper discusses some of the key issues in my current research on the history of the relationship between society, tradition and Christianity in the west of Congo-Kinshasa over the last century. My focus here is on the process of progressive transformation of the nineteenth-century territorial cults and the structural continuity which is apparent in the development of the Congolese Christian church in the area. In presenting some of my working hypotheses I am suggesting that after an initial period of open hostility towards the first missionaries, BaKongo became aware - 'empirically' as it were - of the fact that new ways were to be explored in order to compete with the challenges of Western colonialism and the forces of modernity and globalisation. In this regard, the history of religious life in West Congo can be described as a progressive attempt to regain control over the relations between human society and the supernatural world. KEY WORDS: African Christiantity, Central Africa, religion, territorial cults

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Fidele, Nyimi Bushabu, Sekele Maboro Patrick, Ramazani Haruna, Kalala Kazadi, Sekele Isourady Bourley Jean Paul, and Mantshumba Milolo Augustin. "Awareness on Risk Factors of Oropharyngeal Cancer and Practice of Oral Sex among Students in Kinshasa City: A Pilot Study." Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research, September 3, 2021, 196–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jammr/2021/v33i1831072.

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Aims: The present study aimed to estimate the occurrence of oral sex to prevent HPV-associated or opharyngeal cancer. Study design: A prospective cohort study was conducted among the students in the Institut de Technique Medical de Kinshasa (ISTM-KIN), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Place and Duration of Study: Participants were enrolled from March 2019 through April of the same year in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kinshasa City. Methodology: Eligibility criteria included both men and women aged 15 to 45 years, enrolled in an educational program, and accepted voluntarily to respondent the survey. Demographic data, history of sexual behavior, initiation times, and knowledge about risk factors of oropharyngeal cancer were evaluated. Differences between groups of sexual behavior were tested by chi-square tests and ANOVA test at signiﬁcant level of 5%. Results: Out of 1,196 participants, 412 (34.4%) were males and 784 (65.6%) females with an average (±SD) age of 20±2.4 years. A total of 964 respondents reported a history of sexually behavior (81%), of that, 53.1% had performed oral sex, 35.4% had vaginal sex and11.5% had practiced sodomy. Oral sex was the first sexual activity practiced with a significant difference among sexual behavior (P= .003). The respondents knew that oral sex is a risk factor for OPC (51.5%; n=616). Conclusion: Oral sex is the first sexual activity performed by students of Kinshasa Nursing School. Therefore, the education program to avoid the risk of HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancers may be necessary.

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Hendrickx, Colin. "Histoire du politique au Congo-Kinshasa: Les concepts à l'épreuve (1) Mobutu (2)." Afrika Focus 30, no. 2 (February 1, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/af.v30i2.8088.

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This review article analyses two publications which deal with the history of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo/Zaire, emphasising the reign of President Mobutu Sese Seko. In comparing the two publications, originating from two decidedly different traditions, the pre- sent article concludes that, twenty years after the fall of the Mobutu regime, there is not (yet) a historiographic consensus on the character of the Mobutu regime. Jean-Pierre Langellier, com- ing from the world of journalism, emphasised in his biography of Mobutu the importance of the President’s friendship ties with the West, and the influence of the Cold War. Conversely, scholar Gauthier de Villers relativised the deterministic character of the Cold War on the regime, as well as the unconditional amical ties of Mobutu with his Western allies. Key words: Congo, DRC, Mobutu, Zaire

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Lusey, Hendrew, Miguel San Sebastian, Monica Christianson, and Kerstin E. Edin. "Factors associated with gender equality among church-going young men in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: a cross-sectional study." International Journal for Equity in Health 16, no. 1 (December 2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0707-7.

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Lusey, Hendrew, Miguel San Sebastian, Monica Christianson, and Kerstin E. Edin. "Prevalence and correlates of gender inequitable norms among young, church-going women and men in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo." BMC Public Health 18, no. 1 (July 17, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5742-9.

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Lagae, Johan, and Jacob Sabakinu Kivilu. "PRODUCING NEW SPATIAL(IZED) (HI)STORIES ON CONGOLESE CITIES: REFLECTIONS ON TEN YEARS OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN UGENT AND UNIKIN." Afrika Focus 31, no. 2 (January 28, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/af.v31i2.9920.

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This article presents the context and some of the results of ten years of collaboration in the field of African urban history between researchers from Ghent University (UGent), and mainly its Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, and scholars of the Université de Kinshasa (UNIKIN), which, in part, has benefited from the forum created by the Ghent African Platform (GAP). What ties together this collaborative work, is the conviction that ‘History matters’ when thinking not only about the past, but also about the present and the future of cities in today’s DR Congo. Moreover, we argue, it is the combination of our complementary expertise in socio-demographic history and architectural/ urban planning history that has enabled us to develop new narratives on space and society in these urban environments. These, we believe, hold a relevance for the historiography of Congo’s colonial past as well as for current discussions on colonial heritage and urban development. By demonstrating that we have gained much through stimulating a cross-disciplinary and inter-generational conversation that brings together (the expertise from) scholars working on Congo/Africa and coming from different backgrounds, academic cultures and age, we explicitly want to advocate setting up forms of relationship between the ‘North’ and ‘South’ that go beyond the common trope of ‘Capacity Building’. A number of specific pieces of work related to the cities of Kinshasa and Matadi will be discussed, illustrating how we have also deliberately sought to target different audiences by producing different kinds of output, from academic publications to exhibitions, reports for policy makers to outreach activities in the cultural arena. As such, we believe that this ten years of collaboration on African Urban History is fully in tune with GAP’s main agenda of creating a cross-disciplinary forum where scholars from North and South, and from different generations can meet and exchange ideas, and we hope to embed our future collaboration in an even broader community, both at UGent and UNIKIN. KEYWORDS: DR CONGO, URBAN HISTORY, CROSS-DISCIPLINARITY, COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

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Morabito, Vittorio. "Riva, Silvia. – Rulli di tam-tam dalla torre di Babele. Storia della letteratura del Congo-Kinshasa." Cahiers d'études africaines 43, no. 172 (January 1, 2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.1557.

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Henriet, Benoît. "Reuben A. Loffman, Church, State and Colonialism in Southeastern Congo, 1890-1962. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series." BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 135 (December 7, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10855.

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