DR Congo strives to reconcile young people with books


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Depaul Bakulu, co-founder of Mlimani Editions, looks at a book at the 'Lave Litteraire' bookshop in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: AFP

The printer in the corner of Martin Lukongo's print shop in Goma, a city in DR Congo's troubled east, vibrates as it churns out an order for 400 copies of a book.

For more than 30 years, this part of the vast central African country has been known for the conflict that now surrounds the city, rather than for any literary output.

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