List of newspapers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Référence Plus, 2009

The following is a list of newspapers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

List of publications

Title	Locale	First issued	Notes
L'Avenir	Kinshasa	1996
La Conscience  [ fr ]	Kinshasa	1990
Elima  [ fr ] [1]	Kinshasa	1928
Mjumbe  [ ln ] [2]	Lubumbashi	1963
Mukuba  [ fr ]	Lubumbashi
L'Observateur  [ fr ]	Kinshasa
Le Phare  [ fr ]	Kinshasa	1983
Le Potentiel
La Prospérité  [ fr ]	Kinshasa
La Référence Plus  [ fr ]	Kinshasa
La République  [ fr ]	Kinshasa
Salongo  [ fr ]	Kinshasa	1972
Le Soft international  [ fr ]	Kinshasa	1990
La Tempête des Tropiques  [ fr ]	Kinshasa

Defunct

Title	Locale	Years	Notes
L’Avenir Colonial Belge [3]	Léopoldville	1920-?
Le Courrier d’Afrique  [ nl ]	Léopoldville	1930-1972
L’Echo de Stan [3]
L'Écho du Katanga [4]	Elisabethville	1931-1962
L'Essor du Congo [4]	Elisabethville	1928-?
Hodi	Costermansville	1942-?	In Swahili and French [4]
Journal du Katanga [4]	Elisabethville	1911-?
La Presse Africaine [5]	Bukavu	1953-?
Le Stanleyvillois [3]	Province Orientale

See also

• Media of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Democratic Republic of the Congo literature
• Union nationale de la presse congolaise  [ fr ]

References

1. "Democratic Republic of the Congo: Media and Publishing". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
2. Europa 2004.
3. CRISP 1959.
4. Kadima Nzuji 1984.
5. "La "Presse africaine", une aventure très belge", Lalibre.be (in French), 30 June 2010, Marie-Madeleine Arnold-Gulikers

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia and Lingala Wikipedia

Bibliography

in English

• "Democratic Republic of the Congo: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 300+. ISBN   1857431839.
• Jonathon Green; Nicholas J. Karolides (2005). "Democratic Republic of Congo". Encyclopedia of Censorship. Facts on File, Inc. ISBN   978-1-4381-1001-1.
• "Democratic Republic of Congo", Freedom of the Press, USA: Freedom House, 2016, OCLC   57509361

in French

• "La presse quotidienne au Congo". Courrier Hebdomadaire du CRISP (in French) (26). Brussels: Centre de recherche et d'information socio-politiques: 1. 1959. doi: 10.3917/cris.026.0001 – via Cairn.info.
• Albert-Oscar Bolela (1971), "Un aperçu de la presse congolaise écrite par les noirs de 1885 à 1960", Zaïre-Afrique (in French), vol. 11, pp. 5–23, ISSN   0010-5767
• Mukala Kadima Nzuji [in French] (1984). La littérature zaïroise de langue française: 1945-1965 (in French). Éditions Karthala. ISBN   978-2-86537-100-6.

External links

• "Democratic Republic of Congo Profile: Media". BBC News . 4 May 2011.
• "Democratic Republic of the Congo". Electronic Newspapers of Africa. Virtual Libraries: African Studies. New York, USA: Columbia University Libraries.
• Karen Fung, African Studies Association (ed.). "News (by country): Congo-Kinshasa". Africa South of the Sahara. USA – via Stanford University. Annotated directory
• "Newspapers Held in Microform: Dem. Rep. Congo" (PDF). Cooperative Africana Materials Project. United States: Center for Research Libraries. 2012.