![…in which [the author] evokes with mischievousness and emotion his childhood in Pointe-Noire, the Congolese port city on the Atlantic coast…Alain Mabanckou speaks about African identity, his eclectic influences and why it is difficult to define an “African literature”…
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…in which [the author] evokes with mischievousness and emotion his childhood in Pointe-Noire, the Congolese port city on the Atlantic coast…Alain Mabanckou speaks about African identity, his eclectic influences and why it is difficult to define an “African literature”…
more.
Why should we negotiate with the government? They are talking peace but showing us the hand of war.
Bertrand Bisimwa, a spokesman for rebel group M23.
The rebels, who are widely believed to be backed by Rwanda and have also been accused of war crimes, took Goma, a provincial capital, on Tuesday. Since then, they have continued their push toward other strategic cities in eastern Congo…
…brilliantly wraps the vibrant rhythm of the African oral tradition in a corrosive and sarcastic style.
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…close to the rate in some African countries…That’s five times higher than the Centers for Disease Control’s previous estimate for African-American women…The study showed that the annual rate of infection was 24 per 10,000 African-American women in six cities: Baltimore; Atlanta; Newark, New Jersey; New York City; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Washington, D.C. Nationally, African-American women’s rate is 5 per 10,000. In the Congo, it is 28 per 10,000.
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more, here.Lynn Nottage is set to create a teleplay of [her Pulitzer-Prize-winning play] “Ruined,” which will be produced by HBO Films and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. The project is still in its early phases and a timeline has not yet been announced…”Ruined” is set in the African country of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the rape of Congolese women amid an ongoing military conflict has became a systematic, deliberate and often public way to instill terror. Here, Mama Nadi runs a bar, and while she protects the women she hires, she also profits from them.
mining operations suspended.
“The scale of mineral exploitation in this part of the country is a result of the activities of mafia groups,” the statement said. These groups “are reinforcing, in spite of stabilization efforts, recurrent insecurity.”
examination of mass graves.
A diplomatic row is raging over a draft of a UN report, leaked to the press late last month, that accuses Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s troops of massacring Hutu refugees who had fled to neighbouring Zaire, now Congo, after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of Tutsis and moderate Hutus that left 800,000 dead. The intervention of Kagame’s forces has been credited with ending the 1994 killings.
and, the mass rapes.
The recent gang rapes in Congo by hundreds of members of adjacent rebel groups is sickening, to say the least. The U.N. reports the number of victims assaulted is over 500 in four days, with more women coming forward daily for medical attention and to report that they were victims of the mass assault; a heinous assault, mind you, that occurred in groups. Two to six men would gang rape a single victim, sometimes in front of her husband, father and children.
I am trying to understand what’s going on. I don’t know enough to put this in any kind of perspective. I’m trying to learn. Need to read this or something like it.
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infrared photos by Richard Mosse in the Eastern Congo; no digital enhancement
United Selfies of America
Drake in Anchorman 2? Stolen from @elliottwilson.
In a nineties kind of world, I’m glad I got my...
love these things!
Red peas soup using smoke turkey neck, made by me today.
Star fruit and sweet sap
Chicken patty straight from Jamaica. Love my parents
![Lynn Nottage is set to create a teleplay of [her Pulitzer-Prize-winning play] “Ruined,” which will be produced by HBO Films and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. The project is still in its early phases and a timeline has not yet been announced…”Ruined” is set in the African country of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the rape of Congolese women amid an ongoing military conflict has became a systematic, deliberate and often public way to instill terror. Here, Mama Nadi runs a bar, and while she protects the women she hires, she also profits from them.
more, here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l92wb77pdr1qcwnv4o1_500.jpg)
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