Equity treads where angels won't

Early analysts of Africa probably experienced their first encounter with the African continent through Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Many decades later, Michela Wrong was to do a sequel in the in the book entitled In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz.

Honoured and reviled in equal measure, the Democratic Republic of Congo, is many things to many people. It is the land where Mohamed Ali and George Foreman staged Rumble in the Jungle. It is the birthplace of Franco Luambo, he of TPOK fame. These days you will still meet Fera Gola, Mbilia Bele, Kofi Olomide, the cast.