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Monograph / Monographie

2025

• Davey, C. P. (2025). The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide between Congo and Rwanda. University of Michigan Press. [open access]
• Larsen, M. (2025). Worlding home: An urban ethnography of peacekeeping camps in Goma, DRC. Indiana University Press. [open access]
• Mathys, G. (2025). Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa. Cambridge University Press.
• Thill, M. (2025). The Police, the State and the Congo Cop. Bloomsbury.

2024

• Niehuus, R. M. (2024). An archive of possibilities: Healing and repair in Democratic Republic of Congo. Duke University Press.

2023

• Eggers, N. (2023). Unruly Ideas: A History of Kitawala in Congo. Ohio University Press. [open access]
• Radley, B. (2023). Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus. Oxford University Press [Chapters 1-3 open access]

2016

• Ngandu Wa Ngandi, R. (2016). Représentations sociales et enseignement de l’histoire nationale (RDC). Presses Académiques Francophones.

Edited volume / Ouvrage collectif

2025

• Bernault, F., Henriet, B., & Kalema, E. (Eds.). (2025). Textures of Power: Central Africa in the Long Twentieth Century. Leuven University Press. [open access]
• Coutros, P. R., Doman, J. H., Matonda Sakala, I., & Bostoen, K. (Eds.). (2025). An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion: Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest. Routledge.
• Salim, A.,Fouéré, M.-A., et Le Lay, M. (Eds), (2025), Thinking Africa with V.-Y. Mudimbe. Paris, Nairobi: Africae/Twaweza.

2023

• Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (Eds.). (2023). Cryptopolitics: Exposure, concealment, and digital media. Berghahn Books. [open access]

Special issue / Dossier thématique

2024

• Davey, C. (2024). Investigating Multidirectional Violence in Eastern Congo: Owning ‘Genocide’ and Pre-judicial Atrocity. Journal of Perpetrator Research, 6(2), 69-104.

Journal article / Article de revue

2025

• Chen, C. (2025). Living the Field: How Accommodation Choices Shape Research on Global China in Africa. Global China Pulse, 4(1), 34–45.
• Katshunga, J. (2025). Who makes whom visible? Excavating eco-visual cultures in DR Congo and its diasporas, Communication, Culture and Critique, tcaf023.

2024

• Bloch, I. (2024). House construction and social engineering in the Beaux Métiers and Formation Sociale manuals of the Bibliothèque de l’Étoile (1943–1966). ABE Journal, 23.
• Bostoen, K., Pacchiarotti, S., & Hubau, W. (2024). À la recherche des sentiers perdus du passé en forêt. Réflexions sur l’effondrement de la population en Afrique centrale il y a 1500 ans. Proceedings of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, 2, 9-30.
• Bostoen, K., & Pacchiarotti, S. (2024). Noncausal/causal alternations and the rise of lability in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861). Journal of Swahili and African Studies, 35, 11–31.
• Coutros, P., Matonda Sakala, I. R., Doman, J., Pacchiarotti, S., Mesfin, I., & Bostoen, K. (2024). The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest : the first archaeological investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC – AD 1648. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 59(2), 213–248. [for access: koen.bostoen@ugent.be]
• Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., Concetta Burgarella, Rickard Hammarén, Anders Eriksson, Mário Vicente, Cecile Jolly, Armando Semo, Hilde Gunnink, Sara Pacchiarotti, Leon Mundeke, Igor Roland Matonda Sakala, Joseph Koni Muluwa, Peter Coutros, Terry S. Nyambe, Justin Cirhuza Cikomola, Vinet Coetzee, Minique de Castro, Peter Ebbesen, Joris Delanghe, Mark Stoneking, Lawrence Barham, Marlize Lombard, Anja Meyer, Maryna Steyn, Helena Malmström, Jorge Rocha, Himla Soodyall, Brigitte Pakendorf, Koen Bostoen, and Carina M. Schlebusch. (2024). The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa. Nature, 625(7995), 540–547.
• Jungnickel, K., Seidensticker, D., Hubau, W., Mees, F., Cornelissen, E., & Bostoen, K. (2024). The Late Pleistocene and Holocene chronocultural and anthracological open-air sequence from Mukila (DRC). Quaternary Science Reviews, 337, 108752.
• Lomami, F. (2024). Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Moral-Rational Review and Need for a Functional Explanatory Framework in Understanding of African Armed Conflicts. Journal of International Relations, 4(3), 12–34.
• Lomami, F. (2024). Grounded Immoral and Irrational Features of Armed Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of Conflict Management, 4(4), 37–63.
• Pacchiarotti, S., Kouarata, G., & Bostoen, K. (2024). Sound change versus lexical change for subgrouping: Word-final lenition of Proto-Bantu *ŋg in West-Coastal Bantu. Language Dynamics and Change, 14(1), 1–73. [for access: koen.bostoen@ugent.be]
• Pouillard, V., & Peša, I. (2024). Environnements, ressources, pouvoirs: Vers une histoire socio-environnementale et plus qu’humaine du Congo. Revue d’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique.
• Van Acker, S., Pacchiarotti, S., & Bostoen, K. (2024). The Introduction of Sugarcane in West-Central Africa: Insights from Comparative Bantu Word Histories. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 33(1), 16–45.

2023

• Chen, C. (2023). Un chercheur chinois sur le terrain en RD Congo : parcours, identités et relations d’enquête. Suds : Géographies critiques, perspectives des Suds, 288, 199–209.
• Clist, B., Béarez, P., Mougne, C., Lesur, J., Hubau, W., & Bostoen, K. (2023). First Archaeological Excavations Along the Atlantic Ocean Coastline of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Iron Age Sites at Muanda. African Archaeological Review, 40(4), 711–739. [for access: koen.bostoen@ugent.be]
• Kouarata, G., Pacchiarotti, S., & Bostoen, K. (2023). Nouvelle contribution à l’inventaire et la description des parlers teke (bantou, B70‑80). Linguistique et langues africaines, 9(2). 
• Maselli, L., Delvaux, V., Donzo, J.-P., Pacchiarotti, S., & Bostoen, K. (2023). Labial-velar stops in Sakata (Bantu C34): Preliminary phonetic and phonological observations. Studies in African Linguistics, 52(1-2), 125–147.

2021

• Maselli, L., Pacchiarotti, S., & Bostoen, K. (2021). Labial-velar stops outside the Macro-Sudan Belt : new evidence from Lwel (West-Coastal Bantu, B862). Africana Linguistica, 27, 141–164.
• Pacchiarotti, S., Maselli, L., & Bostoen, K. (2021). The emergence of interior vowels and heterosyllabic vowel sequences in Ngwi (Bantu B861, DRC). Papers in Historical Phonology, 6, 107–146.
• Pacchiarotti, S., & Bostoen, K. (2021). Final Vowel Loss in Lower Kasai Bantu (drc) as a Contact-Induced Change. Journal of Language Contact, 14(2), 438–476.
• Pacchiarotti, S., & Bostoen, K. (2021). The evolution of the noun class system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861, DRC). Language in Africa, 2(3), 11–67.
• Van Acker, S., Pacchiarotti, S., Langhe, E. D., & Bostoen, K. (2021). Reconstructing West-Coastal Bantu Vocabulary as Evidence for Early Banana Cultivation in Central Africa. Studies in African Linguistics, 50(2),285–325.

Book chapter / Chapitre d’ouvrage

Policy brief or report / Note d’information ou rapport

PhD Thesis / Thèse de doctorat

2023

• Hendrickx, C. (2023). African Agency in the International System: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [Doctoral dissertation, University of Vienna and Diplomatic Academy of Vienna].

Other publications / Autres publications