Haute couture, party time and traffic jams in Kinshasa
Sapeurs, members of "La Sape" movement, the acronym for "Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes" (The Society for the Advancement of Elegant People). The DRC’s capital is a bustling metropolis, with some of the best dressed people one can encounter anywhere. PHOTO | AFP
Recently I went on my maiden visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital city, Kinshasa. It was after many years of wanting to go but not quite getting round to it. It was not my first visit to the country, however.
For almost two decades now, I have been a regular visitor to Goma, the capital city of the DRC’s once notoriously violence-prone North Kivu Province, sometimes for work, at other times for social reasons. It was there that I first set foot in the country.
