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In Memoriam: V.Y. Mudimbe

The Congo Research Network (CRN) is honored to share an In Memoriam written by Prof. Dr. Justin Bisanswa (Université Laval) in tribute to V.Y. Mudimbe:

Full bibliography of Prof Bogumil Jewsiewicki

Thanks to Prof Nathalie Tousignant, you will find below the full list of publications of Prof Bogumil Jewsiewicki, the keynote of the last CRN Conference Publications de Bogumil Jewsiewick.pdfi

Leon Verbeek

Leon Verbeek (b. 1934, Belgium), has worked in Rwanda 1957-1959 and in Congo (Lubumbashi) from 1966 to the present as independent researcher in collaboration with different institutions. He can be contacted via email on verbeek_leon@yahoo.fr Principaux ouvrages publiés : 1)      Kitawala et détecteurs de sorciers dans la Botte de Sakania. In : Enquêtes et documents d’histoire africaine. Louvain-la-Neuve, … Continue reading

Michael Meeuwis

Michael Meeuwis (PhD 1997) is Professor of African languages and linguistics at Ghent University, where he is also the director of the Centre for Studies in African Humanities (http://www.cesah.ugent.be). His domains of interest include the grammatical description of Lingala, the sociolinguistics of Lingala, the history of colonial linguistics in the Belgian Congo, South African sociolinguistics, … Continue reading

Piet Clement

Piet Clement obtained a PhD in Modern History at the KULeuven (1995) and currently works as historian and archivist in Basel, Switzerland. Research interest in the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo focuses on landownership issues and rural development, as well as colonial history and institution building more generally. Short research visits to … Continue reading

Donate to the CongoResearchNetwork and help a Congolese researcher!

The CongoResearchNetwork wants to motivate Congolese researchers to be actively involved in the international academic world. Do you want to help Congolese researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences? You can sponsor the CongoResearchNetwork, which will finance one Congolese scholar per year to – pay his/her tuition fees for the doctoral program at a Congolese … Continue reading

Policy Document “Stabilising the Congo”

RSC Policy Briefing 8 (December 2011) Stabilising the Congo http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/publications/policy-briefings/RSCPB8-StabilisingCongo.pdf   Written by Emily Paddon (University of Oxford) and Guillaume Lacaille (independent expert), this policy briefing considers the ‘stabilisation approach’ adopted by both the international community and national government to address the continued insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).   Considering stabilisation also offers … Continue reading

CEGEMI – Centre d’Expertise en Gestion Miniere

CEGEMI- Centre d’Expertise en Gestion Minière   Ce centre de recherche rassemble des chercheurs en économie, droit et sciences sociales. Ils font des recherches qualitatives et quantitatives sur de différent problématiques présents dans les sites miniers du Sud-Kivu, notamment la pauvreté, les conflits fonciers, l’exploitation artisanale et industrielle des minerais.   Le centre a été … Continue reading

Bio Bandeja YAMBA

Bandeja YAMBA is a public servant with the Canadian Department of Justice.  He has a Ph. D. in African History and has taught African history at the University of Quebec at Montreal, and at the University of Ottawa. He also taught history of the Islam World at the University of Quebec at Rimouski. His research … Continue reading

Congolese researchers talking about their research (Video interviews)

The Congo Research Network wants to give more visibility to Congolese researchers. Therefore, we have interviewed 17 Congolese researchers in Kinshasa. Each week, a new video will be posted via the CRN Youtube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3gNbLGZzg 1st interview 2nd interview 3rd interview

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