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Unit 6
Grades 9-10
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Matonge: A Neighborhood Built in Three Waves

In the Ixelles district of Brussels sits Matonge — named after a neighborhood in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Today it is Belgium's most visible Congolese neighborhood: a dense cluster of hair braiding salons, African grocery stores, restaurants,…

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