Dear Students and Supporters Friends of the Congo has embarked upon its third annual Break The Silence Speakers Tour, which runs from February through July 2011. We began the tour in the San Francisco Bay Area with Congolese filmmaker and founder of Yole Africa Petna Ndaliko. He screened Jazz Mama, a film that captures women [...]
Pow… Pow… is what I heard… Is it New York? Kinshasa? Bukavu? Where am I? Wait a minute… I’m in Brooklyn… Why am I hearing gunshots inside a subway car? This is what happened to me about a week ago, the night of January 22nd. What happened? Where was I going? What did I do? [...]
Friends of the Congo has chosen The Assassination of Lumumba as the book of the month for January this year once more. When I first read the book, I had chills right after I finished its introduction. As a Congolese young activist, I realized how misinformed I was on what caused the death of my [...]
Dear Friends, I greet you in the name of many Congolese youth who are seeking to ride the winds of change that blew from the African youth revolution in Soweto in 1976 to the streets of Cairo today, and making its way across the Atlantic to America, symbolized by the Occupy Wall Street movement. As [...]
By Patricia Sula Who cares about Africa? Much less, who cares about the Congo? I have more important things to think about. Like my car that I need to replace. I’ve been eyeing this beautiful white 2008 Saturn that would be perfect. Don’t forget the trip to the Bahamas I’ve been planning for over a [...]
Aziz is a political scientist who has taught international relations at McGill University and at Université du Québec à Montréal. He was the former coordinator of the Quebec network against apartheid. He is a founding member of the Group for Research and Initiatives for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA) and in which he serves as [...]
Friends of the Congo is partnering with Sahara Reporters to launch Congo Week IV with a live webcast from Congo in Harlem at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem, New York on Sunday, October 16, 2011. The live webcast will begin at 4:30 p.m. US Eastern Standard Time at www.congoinharlem.org after the screening of Blood in [...]
On March 28, 2011, United States President Barack Obama spoke to the American people about Libya and why the United States (U.S.) must engage militarily as opposed to diplomatically. The U.S. , led by AFRICOM (the U.S. Military Command in Africa that enforces U.S. foreign policy), initiated the bombing of Libya ostensibly to enforce a [...]
