Academic literature on the topic 'Art, Congolese (Brazzaville)'

Housing as a place where household members spend about half (12 hours) of their daily time, including six to eight hours in sleep, is one of the essential conditions in the fight against poverty and precariousness. The current Congolese urban environment is facing serious problems: small plots of land, lack of suitable housing in relation to the size and composition of households, overcrowding, and water and electricity supplies. This situation is becoming critical with the appearance of deviant behavior among children aged between 10 and 30. The government and its development partners have demonstrated their powerlessness face to this situation, leaving thousands of children on the streets without education or family warmth to form real criminal gangs. These street children have created the phenomena of "kuluna" and "black babies". It has been shown that these one act in this way for their survival, claiming their rights. In this study, we find innovative proposals to provide households sheltering adulterine and adoptive children with low-cost social housing, in order to restore the image of the head of the household and provide the children with a pleasant space for their physical, economic, cultural and spiritual development. This will undoubtedly help to find solutions to the problems facing children and indeed Congolese society as a whole today. The study revealed that if the government does not take practical measures in response to the phenomena created by wayward children, especially "black babies" and "kuluna", there will be a massive adherence of other children, especially the adulterine and adoptive ones. There will be a risk of the phenomena will to be exported to rural areas. The study recommends a "State - Household" partnership in the manufacture of new types of urban housing for households housing children likely to integrate or create gangs, jeopardizing social order and public security.

AbstractIn 1991 in the Republic of Congo, a sovereign national conference in Brazzaville inaugurated a peaceful transition from socialist one‐party government to multi‐party democracy. The pluralization of public voices in the newly liberalized country – in religious movements, political parties and independent presses – expressed new conditions of understanding about the nation and its affairs. At the same time, local networks and categories of perception inflected geopolitical pressures from foreign powers into quasi‐ethnic divisions in competition for power through government representation. Subsequent conflict over contested elections sparked devastating civil war in 1997 and resulted in the return to power of the former socialist leadership.Given the uncertainties – indeed, the crises of institutions and of knowledge – during these times, how did Congolese diagnose the troubles through which the country passed? This article examines how national and socialist ideals and practices were evoked and reinterpreted to this end in public discourse through idioms of family, affliction, spiritual power and the living body. These modes of speech and action give evidence of longer‐term continuities in the region's political imaginations, as these incorporated changes brought by ongoing involvement in larger modern worlds.

This text analyzes the evolution of the mode of food in Brazzaville and the new language which sticks to it.It shows that to the following day events sociopolitic that this city knew, poverty led the latter to make the choice of the food of mass or street, in restaurants of fortune. This current consumption based on the frozen and flesh-colored products is declined under several names. In we let us support on onomastics and hymnology, this work explores the symbols and felt townsmen that the music congolaise, Rumba, celebrates in a normal way.However, the codes of this natural social relationship with the products for human consumption will be chamboulé by the youthful urban music, half-compartment-shifted, which exchanges the food lexicon to express the spite, the distress and the social marginalisation.Through a chopped and believed narration, it builds on the unvoiced comment and not known, imaginary in which certain names of the products pass to indicate parts of the body or bodies phallic female and pleasure that one can draw. Key words: food, Brazzaville, hymnology, language, onomastics

The semantic shift contributes to the creation of new words in French. This process is also observed in the Congolese written press in Brazzaville. This article therefore analyses lexies that have undergone semantic modifications. A threefold approach of differential linguistics, stylistics and semantaxis allows us to identify the different figurative procedures of word-sliding that deserve a description and an analysis. The first is the expression of metonymy. The second is irony and satirical creation. Keywords: French in Congo, semantic shift, metaphor, semantaxis, antonomasia

<p>The place of a balanced diet in sport has proven to be very important. The objective of this study was to assess the nutritional knowledge of athletes in the Brazzaville athletics league. Our study was conducted on a sample of 50 athletes including 29 Boys and 21 Girls from the events combined with an average age of 23.50 ± 3.32 years and 21.33 ± 9.41 years respectively. The method used was the Abbreviated Sports Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire (ANSKQ) to collect data related to nutrition knowledge from athletes. The results showed ignorance of ranking products for carbohydrate, fat, and protein gain respectively by 62.06% of Boys and 47.61% of Girls, 51.72% of Boys 80.95% of Girls, and 51 72% of Boys versus 61.90% of Girls). Similarly, 51.72% of Boys and 52.38% of Girls ignored the percentages of a balanced diet. Knowledge of what to eat to perform was low in 62.06% of boys and 66.66% of girls. The type of ration established was based on traditional experience in 65.51% of boys and 42.85% of girls. The level of nutrition knowledge was low in 51.72% of boys and 52.38% of girls. This justified the non-respect of meal intake and meal times before sport practice respectively in 82.75% of boys and 95.23% of girls. Hence the non-participation in the composition of the menus of 100% of Boys and 100% of Girls. In conclusion, Congolese athletes have a very low level of knowledge in the field of nutrition. However, a low level of knowledge in nutrition is associated with a negative impact on sport performance.</p><p>La place de l’alimentation équilibrée dans le domaine sportif est avérée très importante. L’objectif de cette étude était d’évaluer les connaissances en nutrition des athlètes de la ligue d’athlétisme de Brazzaville. Notre étude a été menée sur un échantillon de 50 athlètes dont 29 Garçons et 21 Filles des épreuves confondues avec un âge moyen respectivement de 23,50 ±3,32 ans et 21,33 ±9,41 ans. La méthode utilisée était le Questionnaire Abrégé sur la Connaissance en Nutrition Sportive (ANSKQ) afin de collecter les données liées aux connaissances en nutrition auprès des athlètes. Les résultats ont montré l’ignorance de classer les produits pour le gain glucidique, lipidique et protéique respectivement par 62, 06% des Garçons et 47,61% des Filles, 51,72 % des Garçons 80,95% des Filles, et 51,72% des Garçons versus 61,90% des Filles). De même, 51,72% des Garçons et 52,38% des Filles ont ignoré les pourcentages d’une alimentation équilibrée. La connaissance de ce qu’il faut manger pour performer était faible chez 62,06% des Garçons et 66,66% des filles. Le type de ration établie était basé sur l’expérience traditionnelle chez 65,51% des Garçons et 42,85% des Filles. Le niveau de connaissance en nutrition était faible chez 51,72% des Garçons et 52,38% des Filles. Ce qui a justifié le non-respect des prises des repas et des heures repas avant la pratique sportive respectivement chez 82,75% des Garçons et 95,23% des Filles. D’où la non-participation à la composition des menus de 100% des Garçons et 100%des Filles. En conclusion, les athlètes congolais ont un niveau de connaissance très bas dans le domaine de nutrition. Or, le faible niveau de connaissance en nutrition est associé à un impact négatif sur la performance sportive. </p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0022/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

This chapter highlights the results of a baseline survey conducted in Brazzaville in 1992-1993 and a follow-up survey in 2018 on changes in food consumption patterns based on meal monitoring and interviews with food consumers, caterers and food processing companies. Trends regarding meals created by city dwellers, meals from other African cities disseminated by immigrants and by the catering industry are also analysed. Urban catering has undergone major changes over the past 25 years, and Congolese city dwellers now have ready access to international meals as well as new locally invented dishes.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as the DRC or Congo-Kinshasa, is located in Central Africa. It borders nine African countries: Congo (Brazzaville), Central African Republic, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola. It has a small coastline on the Atlantic. It is the largest Francophone country in Africa, the second largest country in Africa, and the eleventh largest country in the world. The size of the country means that the DRC spans two time zones. Sparsely populated, the DRC had 81.3 million inhabitants in 2017. Business hours for most firms and government offices are from 0800 to 1700 Monday to Friday and Saturday from 0730 to 1200. The national currency in DRC is the Congolese franc (CDF).