PostHeaderIcon Goma Festival Seeks Healing, Peace Through Music

Last weekend’s Amani Music Festival brought some of Africa’s biggest artists to Goma, a town ravaged by war and natural disasters, Democratic Republic of Congo, Feb. 14, 2015. (Hilary Heuler / VOA News)

GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO—Several years ago, fed up with the violence engulfing their region, a youth group in Goma set out to hold a music festival for peace. The first attempt in 2013 was canceled as mortars rained down on the city. But in 2014, 25,000 people came to Goma to hear their favorite Congolese artists play. Read more here

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