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Visit to Bulengo IDP Camps: Addressing the Plight of Twa/Pygmies
On Sunday, April 21, 2024, our team visited two groups at the Bulengo IDP camps near Goma, North Kivu, including the Catholic Community. On […]
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African Union
Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti
How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit in my modest but […]
Activism
Haiti Revolution, sparks for freedom
by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, […]
Analysis
Ernest Wamba dia Wamba Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Archives appeared on the net 13 mars 2004 Background Professor Wamba, welcome to Berkeley. Thank you very much. Where were you born and raised? […]
African Union
From Kabila to Tshisekedi and Peacefully! The Congo Holds Its Breath
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service 25 Jan 2019 – Today at 2 p.m. the members of the constitutional Court sworn in the fifth […]
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Building Resilience Far from Home: Communal Democracy Practices amongst Urban Congolese Refugees in Uganda
Under a midday blazing sun in Kampala, we are driving hesitantly over the newly paved roads of Nsambya and Katwe suburb. A pedestrian signals […]
Environment
VINTAGE FILM OF A BATWA COMMUNITY BUILDING A BRIDGE IN THE CONGOLESE RAINFOREST
The following is a link to a film made possibly in the 1930’s (?) in the Congo. It is about a group of Batwa […]
African Union
We Will Not Forget: THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LAVALAS IN HAITI
On February 29, 2004, the constitutional government of Haiti was overthrown, bringing Haiti’s ten-year experience with democracy to a brutal end. Orchestrated by the […]
Articles
EXPERIENCES OF DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: REFLECTIONS ON PRACTICES OF COMMUNALIST PALAVER AS A METHOD OF RESOLVING CONTRADICTIONS
This article by Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba originally appeared in Philosophy and Social Action XI (3) 1985, and has been edited for clarity. Discussions […]
African Union
Ota Benga, the African Man Exhibited in a New York Zoo’s Monkey Cage
It is Saturday the 8th of September in 1906, and hundreds of people are standing around a monkey house in the New York Zoological […]
Analysis
Resisting the lynching of Haitian liberty! By Malaika Kambon
It should be obvious by now that the U.S.-U.N., E.U., OAS and various hired paramilitary police have engineered a second fraudulent election in as […]
Activism
Rest in Power Toussaint L’Ouverture: Saluting Haiti’s Triumph against Colonialism By Richard Sudan
7 Apr 2016 – April 7th marks the passing of one of the greatest, most revered and most important figures of African and world history, […]
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HAITI RISES: A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY by Nia Imara and Robert Roth
Reflecting on struggles everywhere, we came to the conclusion that a people can’t be sovereign if they don’t have the right to vote. No […]
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What is Happening in Haiti is a Genuine Anti-imperialist Popular Revolt By Carlos Aznárez
Port-au-Prince and other Haitian cities are today the stage of the largest popular uprising in decades of the suffering Haitian nation. Tens of thousands […]
Activism
Sure, Washington Has Always Supported Democracy in Haiti American politicians’ rhetoric on Haiti remains woefully disconnected from reality. By Greg Grandin
“As in the past, the United States is taking great interest in how elections in Haiti are unfolding,” a State Department spokesperson announced a […]
Haiti
Haiti: Will Democracy Be Denied—Again? By Marilyn Langlois
Haiti’s next election is less than two weeks away. Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a rare public appearance before cheering multitudes on September 30, […]
African Union
AFRICAN PEOPLE’S UNIFICATION OF AFRICA By Ernest Wamba dia Wamba
An elaboration of a public lecture given at Rhodes University. In this short paper, I want to argue that African […]
Activism
Transcript of Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2015
Nelson Mandela Foundation This is an edited transcript of economist Professor Thomas Piketty’s address to the 13th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, which took place […]
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They have no faith. They have no Loyalty. They are fearless. Money is their new God. They are the new Rich in Africa. By: Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN
In 2012 Africa became the fastest growing continent in the world with the highest number of new millionaires. There are now more than 100,000 […]
Healing
Looking at Ebola from the perspective of one humanity
In response to the Ebola epidemic in Guinée, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the world noticed two distinctly different responses: one from the USA and […]
African Union
Looking at the mindset and the histories behind the expansion of Ebola and NATO By Jeacques Depelchin
Ota Benga alliance In a world that is increasingly more densely interconnected, and, theoretically, more informed, one can easily observe how misinformation/disinformation is easily […]
Articles
Connecting the dot: Congo and World War II; one of the other forgotten commemorations By Raïs Neza Boneza
The first victory on Nazism and Fascism were won on African soil. Congolese troops marched to the town of Asosa, Ethiopia, Gambela and Saio […]
Essays
Edward Snowden: A Healing Voice By Jacques Depelchin
Like many people, I was surprised to hear of Edward Snowden’s decision to leave his job and move toward Hong Kong in search of […]
Ota Benga Alliance
Haïti, Africa, Aristide: The history of one humanity By Jacques Depelchin
Since the time when the Africans, forced against their will to live in Saint Domingue (Haiti), revolted to end slavery (1791-1804) without the endorsement […]
Ota Benga Alliance
South Africa: open letter to Superintendent Nayager By Jacques Depelchin
Ota Benga, at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, showing his sharpened teeth. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dear Mr Nayager, Forgive me for taking your […]