Congo

QUI COMPTE ET QUI NE COMPTE PAS ?

otabenga1 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:34:06 -0600

Autour de Sange
Pour qu’on se rappelle
De celles
Et
De ceux qu’il est trop facile
D’oublier
Car
Qui a entendu parler
De
Sange

A Sange, plus de 200 personnes sont mortes en ce début du mois de juillet 2010 suite à l’explosion d’un camion citerne essayant de dépasser un bus.

Sange connue pour ses fameuses oranges
Maintenant vues à travers les flammes oranges
Cercueil de flammes de souffrance

Plus de 200 personnes
1,000 fois moins que Haïti
donc encore moins visibles
sur le marché de la
visibilité
de la charité
qui décident du droit read more »

The DR Congo: Wars, Resources, Politics and History

otabenga1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:19:09 -0600

The most overused explanation for the continuing chaos and warfare in the DRCongo is its fabulous and legendary resources (gold, copper, cobalt, uranium, diamonds, coltan, timber, water, etc.). Recently, thanks to Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, the public can connect today's situation to what happened a century ago. This book was not only a useful reminder of the genocidal impact of Belgian conquest on the Congolese people, it also provided a graphic, raw illustration of the principles by which political and financial leaders having been ruling the world as a whole. read more »

From Kongo to Saint Domingue to Haiti to DR Congo - (1704—1804—2006)

otabenga1 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:58:46 -0600

The battle for fidelity to humanity/dignity

Thanks to the work of John Thornton (The Kongolese St. Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. Cambridge University Press, 1998), the reading public has access to a history of connection between the Kongo Kingdom and Saint Domingue.

The Story of Kimpa Vita (Dona Beatriz) read more »