A new theory is challenging the long-held belief that Picasso's groundbreaking "Demoiselles d'Avignon" was inspired by African art.

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He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out.

Born in a region of what was then the French Congo and is today part of the Central African Republic, Blouin emerged from a childhood of abuse to become a young, nomadic romantic and ultimately a ...

More French peacekeepers land in the eastern Congo town of Bunia in an effort to restore order to a region devastated by ethnic violence. Tribal fighting has left hundreds dead and forced ...

PARIS, Jan. 31 -- Congo's new president, Joseph Kabila, on his way to the United States on his first diplomatic trip since the assassination of his father two weeks ago, met French President ...

French peacekeepers land in eastern Congo, the first troops in a force meant to protect civilians trapped in a desperate civil war. Some Africa watchers fear the international response is ...

NAIROBI, May 30 -- -- After weeks of negotiations, the U.N. Security Council today approved deployment of French-led international troops to chaotic northeastern Congo, where ethnic massacres have ...