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How Kinshasa is being captured through comics

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Written by Thomas Hubert
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For comic book fans around the world, a handful of cities evoke strong images: superheroes jumping from skyscrapers in New York; Tintin running across a building in a Brussels mural; wide-eyed schoolgirls looking for romance in Tokyo. But colourful cityscapes, designed by local artists, are finally putting an African capital city on the comic map. The place is Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it is not difficult to see why.

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Category: Bookshelf Written by Thomas Hubert

For comic book fans around the world, a handful of cities evoke strong images: superheroes jumping from skyscrapers in New York; Tintin running across a building in a Brussels mural; wide-eyed schoolgirls looking for romance in Tokyo. But colourful cityscapes, designed by local artists, are finally putting an African capital city on the comic map. The place is Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it is not difficult to see why.

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How Dambisa lost her reader

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Here are two predictions about the world economy. First, the West’s malaise and the rise of emerging economies will yield a mountain of books. Second, few of these are likely to be as bad as “How the West Was Lost”.

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Here are two predictions about the world economy. First, the West’s malaise and the rise of emerging economies will yield a mountain of books. Second, few of these are likely to be as bad as “How the West Was Lost”.

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‘How writer Graham Greene inspired me on African adventure’

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What was the motivation behind the current book?

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What was the motivation behind the current book?

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Washington ranks as most well-read city

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The United States’ political capital is the nation’s reading capital as well, according to a study released on Monday.

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The United States’ political capital is the nation’s reading capital as well, according to a study released on Monday.

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The best...and worst books of 2010

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Written by Abdulkareem Baba Aminu
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Nights of the Creaking Bed by Toni Kan

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Nights of the Creaking Bed by Toni Kan

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