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Construction Begins on a Massive New Chinese-Financed Cultural Center in Kinshasa

by Eric Olander

The Chinese embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that construction had begun on an enormous new art and cultural center in the capital Kinshasa. Work on the enormous new facility had been delayed due to COVID-19.

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