Kinshasa — News that Swahili has been adopted as one of the African Union's working languages has been well received in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where nearly half the population speaks ...

Diane Mbombo-Tite speaks five languages: French, Swahili, Lingala, Tshiluba and English. She dreams in French. Growing up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, her mother spoke to her father in ...

GALESBURG — The city of Galesburg will hold its very first Lipanda Day, a celebration focused on Congolese “culture and integration,” on Saturday, July 2. The event will take place from 2-6 p.m. in ...

This year, he's finally back to where he was in the Congo. At Yankee Ridge, which hosts a French-English dual language program, he teaches French grammar to children from a variety of grades. He's ...

It's hard to watch the students learning to dance in the small Binghampton church without smiling. The room is dark, and the lack of strong central air conditioning makes it a little hot. But the ...

Dr. Jean Kaya took a circuitous route to Colorado Mountain College. Hailing from the Republic of the Congo, Kaya matriculated to the United States as a Fulbright scholar and has continued his ...

The newest faculty member to join Colorado Mountain College’s teacher education program comes to his position by way of the Republic of the Congo. Jean Kaya came to the U.S. as a Fulbright Foreign ...

For the 48-year-old Congolese teacher, teaching is a passion that he has loved throughout his life. As a high school teacher in Kasai, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), he taught English and ...