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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the few African countries (together with South Africa and Nigeria) to be able to claim having “written” its own art history as of the 1920’s.
The Academy of Arts in Kinshasa was established only in 1943. In 1996, the new director Daniel Shongo gives for the first time a lot of freedom to the artists, allowing other forms of artistic expression and creating exchanges with other international academies. The artists are very committed and transform the Academy into a field for experimentation. Houston Maludi, Pathy Tschindele, Kura Shomali and Steve …