Sapin Makengele is a self-taught Congolese popular painter from Kinshasa, DRC. His work depicts and comments upon social and political lifeworlds in the Congo and beyond. His paintings have been excited in group and individual exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chad, Congo, France, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States. Organized in collaboration with the […]

Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbors in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and […]

Florence Bernault, Sciences-Po Paris Title: Beyond the Racial Divide: Congruent Imaginaries in Colonial Africa October 24, 2019 Location: A6-117 Time: 12pm Part of the History Program Seminar Series