Combler le fossé entre les rêves et la réalité : un appel à un leadership éthique au Congo
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Combler le fossé entre les rêves et la réalité : un appel à un leadership éthique au Congo

Chaque politicien congolais devrait garder à l'esprit que chaque dollar détourné par la corruption contribue à la pauvreté des 60 millions de Congolais qui vivent avec moins de 1,90 dollar par jour. Chaque route qu'ils ne construisent pas les rend responsables des milliers de personnes qui meurent dans des accidents sur ces routes et de celles qui meurent de faim parce que l'état des routes empêche la nourriture et les ressources de leur parvenir…

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« Touche pas à ma constitution » : mauvais cri de ralliement ?
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« Touche pas à ma constitution » : mauvais cri de ralliement ?

Une question se pose alors, pourquoi le régime de Tshisekedi décideraient-ils d’attaquer cet article ainsi que toute la constitution alors que le peuple Africain assiste au retour en force du panafricanisme anti-impérialiste incarné par les révolutions dans l’Alliance des États du Sahel ? Devrait-on penser que le couple impérialisme-néocolonialisme ne fait que prendre une position défensive ?  Ce qui est sûr est que les Fatshigans veulent détourner l’attention et l’énergie des Congolais de la lutte contre la kleptocratie toxique qui ronge les institutions de la république. Les Congolais conscients doivent être prudent et ne pas perdre de vue le vrai combat et le vrai ennemi…

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White Supremacy, Yet A Factor Against International Solidarity
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White Supremacy, Yet A Factor Against International Solidarity

Nevertheless, paraphrasing Walter Rodney, white people are an enemy of the oppressed people, until proven otherwise (Walter Rodney rightfully applied the same logic to Black or Afro intellectuals/elites). Hence, only on the battlefield, only by sharing the blood under the sounds of machine guns, will white supremacy be destroyed. Solidarity will not be taken for granted or forced upon people as Imperialist US and EU tried to suggested to the people of the world regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine. True solidarity will be built and earn through the revolutionary struggle. Not only between white and non-white, but also among all oppressed people...

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Pourquoi n’y a-t-il pas encore eu de révolution en RD Congo ?
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Pourquoi n’y a-t-il pas encore eu de révolution en RD Congo ?

Cet article s’adresse principalement au peuple congolais, mais il peut aussi s’adresser à tout autre Afro ou autre peuple opprimé et exploité par le système capitaliste, impérialiste et raciste occidental et ses marionnettes. La révolution, je pense, finira par inclure (à un stade différent et ultérieur) d’autres peuples opprimés et exploités, car nous devons maximiser nos ressources et attaquer sur tous les fronts pour être sûrs de renverser ce système qui a mis des décennies et des siècles à être mis en place…

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Somewhere on the road to Hope
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Somewhere on the road to Hope

Nobody should be blamed for their decision to survive. Is it a sin to hope for the best even when your womb is being emptied in front of the whole world? Is it an outrage to pray for the rain of peace in the middle of the arid desert of chaos and bullets? All these people have done was to exist, but what could the world be without them? In a few more years, we will find out. Can we say that their reality will forever be in the hands of others to manipulate? Does the word “hope” really mean anything to them? Will it ever translate into “resistance”?

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Why there has not been a revolution in the DR Congo in the 21st Century?
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Why there has not been a revolution in the DR Congo in the 21st Century?

What one can do is, first, to keep educating themselves. As you have read so far, it is difficult to realize what I have just mentioned without researching it because it is taught nowhere. We cannot expect to learn that from school, we have to put an effort into unlearning all the propaganda we have been fed with. Books are a good start because the truth is that we are not alone, a lot of our brothers and sisters and ancestors have realized too the flaws in the system and they have written about it. One needs just to look for them. There is a lot to learn out there from books, even suggestions for way-outs. And again, we should not expect to truly understand revolutionary texts from going school, we need to put an effort into analysing them.  After that, we need to educate each other. Even if it may not be the most comfortable thing to do if a brother or sister is still brainwashed, it is our duty as a community to bring them home (Carmichael, 1971, p. 433)…

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The Journey to Hope from Destruction
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The Journey to Hope from Destruction

Two decades passed, wars succeeded one another, rebellions begot insurrections and injustice engulfed wretchedness. But the land got rebuilt, a new system, for the people, got installed and agreements got made. Although there is still impunity in the air and some parts are still blurry, victims, their children and their grandchildren are asked to move on, to forget a past that has benefitted some at their expense…

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