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In the early 1920s, in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), an African Christian church emerged from the liberation struggle initiated by Simon Kimbangu. Kimbangu was a Baptist catechist, and his church was in opposition to the Belgian colonial order. While Kimbangu drew crowds of followers, thanks largely to his healing powers and his preaching, singing also appears as a tool that empowered the nascent church to express the Congolese people’s suffering and challenge the existing social order. The African Independent Church (AIC) born from this movement considers itself as a tool of identity reconstruction, empowering the believers to express their suffering and challenge the racial inequalities still extant in the global social order. |
