‘I’m from where you learn to run before you can walk’: the comic strip artist telling the story of DRC’s conflict

In Baraka and the Unpredictable Life of Goma, the artist Edizon Musavuli gives voice to disenfranchised people in a war-torn part of the world he describes as a place ‘where you learn to run before you walk’. Photograph: Courtesy of Edizon Musavuli/The Continent

In the early hours of the morning, Baraka, a young boy, wanders through the streets of Goma. He takes a wrong turn and runs into bandits. Back home, his father flicks through TV channels while his mother counts bags of flour. No one speaks. The silence is broken only by crackles on the radio.

Baraka and the Unpredictable Life of Goma is published in the Continent, a pan-African e-paper Photograph: Courtesy of Edizon Musavuli/The Continent