A free and accessible digital list of writers from Congo (DRC).
The Congolese Author Index is a research and design project dedicated to documenting authors from the Democratic Republic of Congo along with their respective bibliographies.
Created out of personal need and cultural passion, this index aims to make it easier to discover, reference, and celebrate Congolese literature.
This resource is designed for anyone with an interest in Congolese culture and literature, especially:
- Writers, artists, and creatives
- Educators & students
- Curious readers and cultural enthusiasts
This project is more than a digital tool it's an act of design activism. It was born from a desire to:
- Reduce barriers to accessing Congolese literary work
- Celebrate and amplify Congolese voices
- Explore and apply principles of informational design that empower users with more control over how data is accessed and used
- Searchable list of Congolese authors
- Filter by region, genre, or publication period
- Author profiles with bibliography references
- React
- SASS
- Basic Responsive Design
- Sample data
- Simple Navigation Bar
- Simple Search Bar
- basic search functionality
- Author Pages: dynamic routing
- basic responsive card and alphabetical grouping styling
- basic netlify deployement for testing
- author pages and about pages.
- accessibility.
- make footer functional.
- search functionality optimisation. (horizontal search instead of vertical).
- improve search user experience and interface
- Design finalisation & responsiveness
- code refactoring
- Improving Data: use existing dataset for speed? or improve the quality of the existing data? time
- Security
- search has to be resubmitted with empty input in order to get full array again.
- creating empty sections without letters