Congopresse

Congopresse was founded in 1947,[1] under the aegis of the Belgian colonial administration's Centre d'information et de documentation du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi.

The photos were sent to Brussels where the Ministry of Colonies compiled, edited, and disseminated them as propaganda.

[1] Congopresse largely relied on European photographers in its early years.

[5] The European staff all left at independence, and in the 1960s Makula trained a new generation of Congolese photographers to replace them,[3][4] including Mpate Sulia, the agency's only female photographer.

[6] The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium currently maintains the Congopresse archives.