The Congo boom makes its cities grow like well-nourished bamboo shoots. In six years the Negro population of Elisabethville has jumped from 40,000 to 120,000, Costermansville from 7,000 to 25,000 ...

In May 2021 Sylvain Ngouma, a local botanist at Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the north of the Republic of the Congo, led a small team of researchers through the rainforest’s verdant arrowroots.