Number 004 – January 2026
The year 2026 takes its flight with its aspirations and its doubts, its joys and its sorrows, its consolations and desolations in a world in the midst of change, where certainties wave and where calls for justice, truth and brotherhood resonate with a much greater urgency. In the face of these ever-increasing movements of change, should we simply observe? To suffer or to act? Being or not being?
Issue 003 – September – December 2025
Lubumbashi, the economic capital of Haut-Katanga, lives at the rate of mines. Copper and cobalt fuel spectacular growth. But behind this prosperity, a worrying setback: pollution, disease and destruction of ecosystems.
The rivers are saturated with acid effluents and heavy metals. Forests disappear under anarchic urbanization. The air, loaded with industrial fumes, chokes the inhabitants. Result: biodiversity at risk, sterile soils, increasing respiratory diseases (Ilunga and ally: 2023).
No002 – June - August 2025
Today, man complains about the world in crisis. It is a world marked by the dictatorship of capital, a world in which injustice flows into an inevitable system of
selection, favouring the most agile and leaving millions of individuals to their own fate. He denounces the system without leaving it. It also deplores technoscience, perceived as a truncated way of life that disconnects man from his relationship to nature, his environment and others.
No001 – May 2025
Life is a vast mosaic, a multicolored canvas that recalls not only the diversity of humans and their cultures, but also the multiplicity of connections.
that bind us together, connect us to time, throw us into space, insert us into history, make us aware of nature, and make us the products
ends the aspirations of past generations. Sometimes we forget all this. We are first of all spiritual beings, as much as we are physical beings.
Through its various sections, this first issue covers topics ranging from social news to literary productions, it is an essential tool to mobilize actors around the major challenges of Congolese and African society.
Culture and Society: and social aspects, it includes articles such as
« Call for peace in DRC: Father Toussaint Kafarhire, SJ denounces and calls for resistance
Democratic »where reflections on peacebuilding and community dynamics
are exposed.
Free Comment: in this section, independent analyses of subjects
various. For example, «SS, which explores the security and geopolitical dimensions of a conflict
in eastern DRC.
Echoes from CARF: This section highlights recent CARF activities, such as workshops
and Community Initiatives, providing an overview of
efforts to support mining cooperatives, promote human rights and
and contribute to the development of local communities.
News: this section explores various themes such as mines, safety,
society, the environment and literature. It highlights significant events.
Through its pages, Frontiers invites a holistic approach to knowledge and critical thinking,
Affirming that the stakes of our world cannot be seized without a perspective of
their human, economic and spiritual dimensions. By opening with multiple voices (those
of researchers, academics, entrepreneurs, social actors), it contributes to the construction of a
dynamic and committed intellectual space.
We hope that this publication will be a meeting point between disciplines and experiences.
and reflections. So would we have the opportunity to question certainties, to explore
possible and rethink the boundaries of knowledge and commitment?
