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Oct 30, 2019 · Several African cities have become veritable urban giants. Lagos and Cairo are each home to more than 20 million people, while others like Kinshasa, Luanda, and Dar es Salaam continue to grow at breakneck speed. The way these major cities grow will have tremendous impacts on future development in Africa.
This article navigates through the diverse architectural landscape of Kinshasa, unraveling its evolution, design philosophies, and the transformative constructions that characterize this populous city.
Oct 27, 2016 · One of the early landmarks of Belgian colonial urban architecture in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) was the Forescom Tower. Built in 1946, it was the city’s first skyscraper, and one of the first high-rise buildings in Central Africa.
Although political power in the DRC is fragmented, Kinshasa as the national capital represents the official center of sovereignty, and thus of access to international organizations and financing, and of political powers such as the right to issue passports. Kinshasa is also the primate city of the DRC with a population several times larger than ...
- Slave Trade
- Upstream to Boulambemba Island and Matadi
- The Railway
- Kinshasa
First among them was Diogo Cao, a Portuguese captain who made his way down the coast of West Africa in 1482, becoming the first European to come across the River Congo. Dispatched on a second voyage by the Portuguese king two years later, Cao forged friendly relations with the manikongo, the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, an independent state found...
Among the places Tuckey came across was Boulambemba, an island a short boat ride from Banana Point through a labyrinth of mangroves. Today, Boulambemba sits inside a wildlife park where Ranger Pierre Manene hacks his way through the vegetation for several minutes as he makes a path towards an abandoned watchtower and several enormous cannons, which...
Construction of the first railway between Matadi and Kinshasa started in 1890 and took eight years to finish. It was “a modest engineering success and a major human disaster”, wrote Hochschild in King Leopold’s Ghost, referring to the thousands of workers from West Africa, the West Indies, Hong Kong, Macau and Europe who died from sickness and acci...
In a dining car on the train to Kinshasa, the smell of the fish being fried by the train’s cook, Dadine, is overpowering. Beer bottles are spread across a table occupied by a man and two women. By midday, the trio, drinking steadily, are laughing raucously. At the back of the train is chief controller Mbala Ndombasa, who sits quietly and unbothered...
Feb 1, 2023 · In contrast, Africa has seven megacities (Cairo, Kinshasa, Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg–Pretoria, Khartoum, and Nairobi) and two more (Luanda and Dar es Salaam) are expected to join the list around 2032 (Güneralp et al., 2017). At the same time, there are vast numbers of small cities.
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Kinshasa is also the primate city of the DRC with a population several times larger than the next-largest city, Lubumbashi. [84] [65] The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known by its French acronym MONUSCO (formerly MONUC) has its headquarters in Kinshasa.
