Projects
Clinical and functional assessment of Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD) patients in Kinshasa and the effects of a pulmonary rehabilitation program on exercise performance and quality of life in this population KU Leuven
Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) affect all age groups in all regions of the world. People with CRD suffer from significant limitations in functioning and disability due to secondary morbidities, such as peripheral muscular, cardiac, nutritional, and psychosocial disorders, which can be alleviated with Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR). The ATS/ERS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Statement (2013) defines PR as “a comprehensive intervention based on a ...
Comparing technology cultures in urban DR Congo (1960-present): Kinshasa, Kikwit and Lubumbashi. KU Leuven
Spondyloarthritis in Kinshasa, DR Congo: Epidemiology, phenotype, immunogenetic, clinical diagnosis and management. KU Leuven
Chronic arthritides are hardly studied in central Africa. Our recent studies in Rheumatoid arthritis in the DR Congo showed different demographic and phenotypic characheristics compared to a Caucasian population. Data in the field of Spondyloarthritis (SpA) are scarses. The current project aims to study the epidemiology, clinical diagnosis including immunogenetic phenotype and management of SpA in Kinshasa, DR Congo. It will be based on four ...
Talking in the city. A historical-anthropological analysis of communication, urbanism and movement in postcolonial Kinshasa (1960-present). KU Leuven
The research program sets out to analyze the ways in which communication infrastructures have been co−producing the postcolonial society in Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo (1960−present). This will be the first comprehensive study of the dialectics between communication technology (ICT), society and culture in an African urban context. The focus will be on information and communication technologies such as telegraph ...
Technology and the postcolonial city: anthropological explorations of infrastructures. Mobilities and urbanity in postcolonial Kinshasa (1960-present) KU Leuven
The program aims at establishing a team of researchers who study the ways in which technological infrastructures have been co-producing the postcolonial society in Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic in Congo (1960-present). In order to understand
- how local and global politics have been determining material forms of technology and technology use in urban Africa since political independence until now
- how ...
Occupation of public spaces in Kinshasa. The Kinois and the transmutation of wet farmlands in the Malebo Pool in Kingabwa. KU Leuven
The occupation or appropriation of public space, often in violation of official standards, is generalizing in Congolese cities, particularly in Kinshasa where it manifests itself simultaneously through issues of and access to land, and as an environmental problem with regard to the ecosystems it affects, in short an urban planning problem. This can be regarded as one of the contemporary characteristics of urbanization in the Democratic ...
Urban landscapes of colonial/postcolonial health care. Towards a spatial mapping of the performance of hospital infrastructure in Kinshasa, Mbandaka and Kisangani (DR Congo) from past to present (1920-2014) Ghent University
A substantial literature already exists on the intricate relationship between medical science and colonialism: scholars have looked at the historical development of medical science as well as the way in which medicine was entangled in colonial policies. Yet little attention has been given so far to the physical infrastructure of health care, even though during colonial times impressive hospital complexes have been built that, notwithstanding ...
Addressing Health governance in challenging urban environments: exploring the conditions for the application of a participatory accountability tool in Kinshasa Institute of Tropical Medicine
Our objective is to better understand under what conditions this tool and the underlying approach can be adopted and be made to work in Kinshasa ...
The role of global power relations in the everyday professional lives and practices of the journalists of the online and print press in post-colonial Kinshasa. Ghent University
By looking at the ways in which the journalists of the online and print press interact with foreign players, this research project aims to investigate the role of global power relations in the everyday professional lives and practices of the journalists in post-colonial Kinshasa.