On Friday 15th of January at 4:30 in the Daryl Forde lecture theatre Kristien Geenen of KU Leuven will be giving a paper to the West Africa seminar entitled 
The pursuit of pleasure in a war weary secondary city. The focus of her talk will be aspects of her fieldwork in Butembo. Butembo is a town of 700,000 people in the North Kivu province of Congo, bordering Uganda, a region which in the last decade has been at the centre of the worst conflict (in terms of deaths) anywhere in the world since since world war II. 
Kristien has already produced fascinating research on street gangs in Kinshasa which was published in the journal Africa, and I think that this will be an interesting and important paper which many of you would be interested in attending.