Using handmade needles and thread, Lucie Kamusekera has recorded the decades of conflict she has lived through in the Congo
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he could hear the sounds of artillery. “I have no idea how I am still alive,” says Lucie Kamusekera. When the city of Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, fell to a rebel offensive in early 2025, the 82-year-old artist was hiding at home.
Kamusekera, 82, stitches scenes of contemporary Congolese history on to tobacco sacks
“Soldiers were in our avenue; they were fleeing,” she says. “I get tears in my eyes thinking about what happened.”
