Masthash

#Congo

Mark Kielty 🇮🇪
13 hours ago

What do people think of the new #Ireland jersey? I'm in two minds about it. Maybe it's a grower?

The #goalkeeper one is pretty grim though. 😕

I think at this point just let #oneills make it. They make beautiful #Bohemian and #GalwayUnited jerseys now. Not to mention they're the official supplier to the Democratic Republic of #Congo so they have international experience 😀 😉

#FAI #MastoDaoine #football #soccer #NationalTeam #IrishMastodon #RepublicOfIreland

Republic of Ireland football jersey. Green with new shamrock crest made by castore. White, orange and green on the cuffs.
Republic of Ireland goalkeeper football jersey. Pink with the new Irish shamrock crest. Made by Castore.
PhoenixSerenity
2 days ago

The #Congo Basin in Central #Africa is a #critical #biodiversity #hotspot & #linchpin in the fight against #climate disruption. #Conservationist Irene Wabiwa joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss the #urgent need to turn the #UnitedNations recent #promises to protect #biodiversity into reality in the Congo and around the world.

https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=23-P13-00011&segmentID=5

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #environmental #ecosystems #ecology #EarthScience #conservation #ProtectNature #StopEcocide

CineversityTV
2 days ago

#Twitter owner #hypocrite #tyrant #liar #sociopath #fascist #racist #Elon not so
"free speech" #Musk needs free #gullible workers #developers #programmers.
Read his hypocrite #blablabla from Elon;

Our “algorithm” is overly complex & not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things , but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found!
We’re developing a simplified approach to serve more compelling tweets, but it’s still a work in progress. That’ll also be "open source".
What he really means is volunteer work,
He hopes to earn your trust. Really????
Haha.
Consider this;
Have you considered that you probably fired the people who understood it internally Elon "not so smart" Musk!?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musk-says-code-for-recommending-tweets-will-be-public/articleshow/98745967.cms

#RIPtwitter #TwitterMigration #Congo #Tesla #slaves #cobalt #mining #childlabor #dictators #Neuralink #Followfriday #animalcruelty all to do with #psycho Elon Musk.

DoomsdaysCW
3 days ago

#Sargassum #Toxicity: Here's what you need to know

Experts predict it's likely here to stay

By Petar Denoble, MD, D.Sc., Mar 2, 2020

"If you’ve cruised the eastern #Caribbean or South #Florida recently, you probably caught a whiff of a rotten egg smell and noticed piles of floating brown seaweed hugging the shore. Far more than an eyesore, this Sargassum seaweed—and the gases it emits as it rots—has been proven to be hazardous to human health.

"Since 2011, massive Sargassum rafts have been washed up ashore along the eastern Caribbean, spoiling beaches, affecting near-coastal sea life, and causing health problems for beachgoers, boaters, and fishers. Recent satellite observations reveal an unprecedented belt of this brown macroalgae stretching from #WestAfrica to the Gulf of #Mexico—and experts predict that it’s likely there to stay. The problem has become such a menace south of the border that the Mexican Navy has been put in charge of dealing with it.

"Causes of the proliferation of #sargasso are thought to be the influx of fertilizers from the #Amazon and #Congo river basins; dust blown in from the #Sahara Desert carrying nitrogen, phosphorus, and #iron; and increased surface #temperature of the #ocean. In normal circumstances, the mass of sargasso may double in 11 days. With increasing temperatures, that growth gets boosted. The thickness of sargasso rafts gets larger, and the shores get hit by walls of sargasso mass.

"Under normal conditions, floating Sargassum is a thriving #ecosystem, providing a vital habitat and food source for many sea species—including turtles and mahi-mahi. But when it grows too thick, #dolphins and #turtles cannot break through it to the surface and often choke. And when sunlight cannot get through it to the bottom, bottom life gets damaged to the point of #extinction.

"Sargassum presents risks to human health as well. In the water, it’s harmless to humans, but the trouble begins once it lands on the beach and starts to decompose. The decomposition of beached sargasso begins 48 hours after washing up. It then releases hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas and ammonia. H2S is a broad-spectrum poison that smells of rotten eggs.

"Breathing in these toxic gases may cause respiratory, skin and #neurocognitive symptoms in people that come in close contact with degrading sargasso. In 2018, in Guadeloupe and Martinique, there were 11,000 cases of suspected #poisoning reported. Patients complained of heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, vertigo, headache, and skin rashes."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Pollution #Fertilizers

Read more:
https://danboater.org/travel-health-and-safety/sargassum-toxicity-health-hazard-what-you-need-to-know.html

Nieuws | NOS
4 days ago

𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼: '𝗗𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗮𝗸𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗱'

Moordpartijen, afgebrande dorpen en massaverkrachtingen. Bijna dagelijks komen berichten naar buiten over geweld tussen rebellengroepen en het regeringsleger in het oosten van de Democratische Republiek Congo. Burgers betalen de hoogste prijs. Volgens de VN zijn er alleen al in februari 300.000 mensen op de vlucht geslagen. Het aantal doden de afgelopen jaren loopt in d...

https://nos.nl/l/2467821 #nieuws #nos #Congo #OostCongo #VN

Africa Center
6 days ago

Partners inclined to support Africa’s longtime leaders for the sake of “stability” should recognize that regimes based on a cult of personality are not in fact stable but pose a direct and escalating threat to to #stability.

See the long list of examples:

https://africacenter.org/spotlight/the-persistence-of-cults-of-personality-in-african-governance/

#Africa #governance #Cameroon #EquatorialGuinea #Togo #Uganda #GuineaBissau #Chad #Congo #Gabon

Miguel Dante
6 days ago

Major #volcanic #eruption of #Nyamulagira #volcano in #Democratic Republic of #Congo producing ash cloud threatening city of #Goma. Deadly 2021 eruption of nearby #Nyiragongo caused #panic & #evacuations of thousands of citizens: #Africa #FDIC #SVB http://bit.ly/3YJ84Xr

"Apple, Apple, we're afraid of your batteries."

No, not a chant, but a protest song in #Congo, denouncing the exploitation, oppression and impoverishment caused by #cobalt mining. Depressing.

80% of #cobalt comes from the #Congo and is largely mined by only 19 mines. 15 of them are in Chinese hands. Modern #colonialism, because others become rich, while locals become poorer and their environment is destroyed.

CineversityTV
6 days ago
Ukraine War Bulletins and News
1 week ago

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HAjT4faUg-o&feature=share ⚠️🇨🇩Suspected militants kill at least 19 in east Congo (Reuters News VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #Congo #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine

Oden
1 week ago

DR #Congo's M23 ceasefire: #Angola to deploy troops after failed truce

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64927180

Pierre Huyghebaert
2 weeks ago

#PhilippeCapart, libraire et éditeur, passe chez ses voisins libraires à la #GalerieBortier à Bruxelles. Et là "quand L'ESSOR DU #CONGO en décembre 1960 devient L'ESSOR DU #KATANGA en janvier 1961". #colonisation #typographie

Entête des deux journaux
Nieuws | NOS
2 weeks ago

𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝟯𝟲 𝗱𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗷 𝗮𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼

Bij een aanval op het dorp Mukondi in het noordoosten van de Democratische Republiek Congo zijn vannacht minstens 36 mensen vermoord. Dat laat de gouverneur van de Congolese provincie Noord-Kivu weten op Twitter.

https://nos.nl/l/2466790 #nieuws #nos #doden #aanslag #Congo

Kinetograph
2 weeks ago
CineversityTV
2 weeks ago

#Twitter owner #hypocrite #tyrant #liar #sociopath #fascist #racist #Elon not so
"free speech" #Musk must be frightened, links to #Mastodon still blocked!

https://v.resultmeet.com/web-stories/twitter-mastodon-links-blocked-journalists-suspended/
Watchout with Elon Musk, the man is a blatant liar!
Firing people without letting them know they are fired is one, with his ruthless #business #psychopath mind thats no problem..
Elon Musk doesn't care about people at all!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/07/elon-musk-twitter-employee-feud-haraldur-thorleifsson

He only backpedals when he thinks its gonna cost him money, don't be fooled.
The way Elon treats and disrespects people is structural.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/businesses-are-not-families-ex-twitter-employee-whose-pic-of-sleeping-in-office-went-viral-101677929319977.html

#RIPtwitter #TwitterMigration #Congo #Tesla #slaves #cobalt #mining #childlabor #dictators #Neuralink #Followfriday #animalcruelty all to do with #psycho Elon Musk.

CineversityTV
2 weeks ago

Maybe people will see now, you must certainly read it to see how #Twitter owner #tyrant #liar #sociopath #fascist #racist #Elon not so
"free speech" #Musk is this time it is about how he treats employees, firing them without letting them know, and his ruthless #business #psychopath mind.
Elon Musk doesn't care about people at all!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64871183

#RIPtwitter #TwitterMigration #Congo #Tesla #slaves #cobalt #mining #childlabor #dictators #Neuralink #Followfriday #animalcruelty all to do with #psycho Elon Musk.

Nils Wilcke
2 weeks ago

L'humeur de Macron ne s'est pas arrangée en l'Afrique. Son homologue congolais, Tshisekedi, lui a reproché son "regard paternaliste". L'Elysée préfère louer la capacité de "dialogue du président avec les acteurs de la région". Comprendre, beaucoup de blabla, peu d'avancées... #Macron #Afrique #Congo #Compl #diplomatie #Politique

Meg A (she/her)
2 weeks ago

Listening to 🇨🇩Congolese Moms' songs gives me the positivity of like seeing my mom

https://lesmamansducongo.bandcamp.com/album/kikento

#congo #congolese #congolesemusic #lullaby

Press Planet
2 weeks ago

🇫🇷🇪🇺🇨🇩 Emmanuel Macron à Kinshasa: la RDC «ne doit pas être un butin de guerre» 📰 http://urlr.me/q6GP5

#RevuedePresse #France #EmmanuelMacron #RDC #Congo #FélixTshisekedi

Félicien Breton
2 weeks ago

La #FrançAfrique est grandement bousculée :
- les politiciens font des discours ;
- les institutions françaises continuent ;
- les autres s'en passent.
https://www.france.tv/france-5/c-ce-soir/c-ce-soir-saison-3/4627129-france-afrique-la-fin-de-l-influence.html #CCeSoir #FranceTV #colonialité #décoloniale #RDC #Rwanda #Madagascar #francophonie #restitution #muséologie #lectureDécoloniale :
Avec :
- Lova #Rinel, chercheure associée à la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique ;
- Leslie #BonyLundula, fondatrice de #Congo Synergie Club, membre de "Je m’engage pour l’#Afrique" ;
- Antoine #Glaser, journaliste, co-auteur avec Pascal Airault de "Le piège africain de Macron" aux éditions Fayard ;
- Pascal #Blanchard, historien, co-directeur de "Histoire globale de la #France #coloniale" aux éditions Philippe Rey ;
- Vincent #Hugeux, grand-reporter, enseignant à Sciences Po.

Dictionnaire des francophones
3 weeks ago

Au #Tchad et au #Congo, si vous allez manger dehors, c'est bon mais c'est hô !

#RDC #RC #DDF #expression #languefrançaise
🌟http://dictionnairedesfrancophones.org🌟

hô à manger
Locution nominale
Congo, Tchad
Petit restaurant sommaire et bon marché.
CineversityTV
3 weeks ago

#Twitter owner #tyrant #liar #sociopath #fascist #raciist #Elon not so
"free speech" #Musk is again in the news, this time it is about subscription fees per month. To get a blue verification sign you have to pay 8.47 euro per month.
Really strange, for a social media platform that depends on #tweets by its users.

One more reason to move to #Mastodon

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue

#RIPtwitter #TwitterMigration #Congo #Tesla #slaves #cobalt #mining #childlabor #dictators #Neuralink #Followfriday #animalcruelty all to do with #psycho Elon Musk.

Minutes du papillon
3 weeks ago

En avant les Mamans du Congo !...

Bien difficile de savoir s'il s'agit d'une énième valorisation coloniale ou autre. Je les découvertes par Fip. J'aime bien leur chant, leur théatralisation, leur posture pro-maman. Et je pourrais me renseigner auprès des Congolais que je croise. En attendant je les écoute.

#congo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du-USRbEt8I

https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip/sala-sala-l-afro-house-hypnotique-des-mamans-du-congo-rrobin-5571302

Andrew Stroehlein
3 weeks ago

In my #HumanRights newsletter today:

1⃣ US #Insulin Win Masks Regulatory Sin

2⃣ A Chance for Change on EU Borders

3⃣ No Jokes Allowed in #Congo? (by Alice Autin)

Read & subscribe here: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/03/02

3 weeks ago

Un enfer passé sous silence : L’infâme guerre sans fin au Congo

Jason Stearns explique pourquoi la guerre ici s’est auto-entretenue, alors que 120 groupes armés s’alimentent les uns les autres et que des millions de personnes sont mortes. Source : Responsible Statecraft, Daniel LarisonTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Vingt ans après la fin de la 2e guerre du Congo (1998-2003), un conflit sans fin […]

https://www.les-crises.fr/un-enfer-passe-sous-silence-l-infame-guerre-sans-fin-au-congo/

#Géopolitique #Afrique #Congo #guerre #Géopolitique #Afrique #Congo #guerre

Via RSS : http://feeds.feedburner.com/les-crises-fr

CineversityTV
3 weeks ago

Hahahaha. Only#Twitter owner #tyrant #liar #sociopath #fascist #raciist #Elon not so
"free speech" #Musk is again in the news, this time it is about #racism #Dilbert
Musk’s views on race have been the subject of scrutiny both at Twitter, where he has reinstated far-right accounts, including those of neo-Nazis and others previously banned for #hate speech, and at #tesla which has been the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging a culture of rampant racism and sexual harassment in the workplace.
I just don't understand why a #billionaire like Elon isnt banned or #outlawed by the #media

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/elon-musk-scott-adams-dilbert-racist/

#RIPtwitter #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Signal #Congo #Tesla #slaves #cobalt #mining #childlabor #dictators

Palm Oil Detectives
3 weeks ago

Eastern #Gorillas are powerful yet gentle. They are critically endangered in #Uganda #Congo #Rwanda due to complex threats incl. #poaching #palmoil #deforestation. You can protect them when you #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/27/eastern-gorilla-gorilla-beringei/

Eastern #Gorillas are powerful yet gentle. They are critically endangered in #Uganda #Congo #Rwanda due to complex threats incl. #poaching #palmoil #deforestation. You can protect them when you #Boycottpalmoil  #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/27/eastern-gorilla-gorilla-beringei/
CineversityTV
3 weeks ago

#Twitter owner #tyrant #liar #sociopath #Elon not so
"free speech" #Musk is again in the news, Twitter hasn’t paid its #Slack bill. But that’s not why Slack went down: someone at Twitter manually shut off access, we’re told. #Platformer was not able to learn the reason prior to publication, though the move suggests Musk may have turned against the communication app.
#Developers, #programmers and #managers were fired without notice!!!! and couldn't log in to their workspace!
Slack was down Musk said, due to routine maintenance. “There is no such thing as ‘routine maintenance.’ That’s bullshit.” a Slack employee told us.
So its more #lies by #billionaire and ruthless #business #psycho Musk

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613288/twitter-slack-jira-outages-performance-degradation

#RIPtwitter #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Signal #Congo #Tesla #slaves #cobalt #mining #childlabor

🇨🇩🇷🇼 RDC : Kinshasa veut des sanctions contre Kigali, l'Afrique centrale appelle au dialogue 📰 http://urlr.me/q6GP5

#RevuedePresse #RDC #Congo #Rwanda #CEEAC

🎶🎶 Abeti Masikini – Je suis fâché

🔗 https://amf.didiermary.fr/abeti-masikini-georges-seba-fache/?mtm_campaign=AutoPost&mtm_kwd=DirectAMF&mtm_source=Mastodon

📨 Un classique en 1986 par la chanteuse congolaise Abeti Masikini, écrit, arrangé et produit par l'artiste camerounais Georges Seba (la raison du fâché au masculin dans le titre - et non fâchée - même si la chanson parle bien d'une femme qui cherche son [...]

#️⃣ #OldAfricanMusic #Cameroon #Congo(s) #Soukous #Zouk

Abeti Masikini - Je suis fâché
JuneSim63 💚
4 weeks ago

"Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish world in which billions of people are unwittingly complicit"

#Cobalt #Mining #DRC #CobaltRed #ModernSlavery #Poverty #Africa #Congo

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/phone-electric-vehicle-congo-cobalt-mine-b2277665.html

🎶🎶 Le Grand Kalle

🔗 https://amf.didiermary.fr/le-grand-kalle/?mtm_campaign=AutoPost&mtm_kwd=DirectAMF&mtm_source=Mastodon

📨 Le Grand Kalle: His Life His Music was a 2013 compilation (2-CD plus 104-page book) that brought together for the first time the breadth of Kalle's recording career spanning over 3 decades including tracks taken from shellac and vinyl that had been unavailable for many years.

https:/

#️⃣ #OldAfricanMusic #60smusic #70smusic #Congo(s) #Rumba

NaturalRadical
4 weeks ago

I learned so much about #SlowFood today! This is the organization that Victor and Adrien (see previous thread) worked with in the #Congo. #gardens #biodiversity #seedSaving #community #PlantMedicine https://www.slowfood.co.za/10-000-gardens-in-africa/

NaturalRadical
4 weeks ago

(1) A very close friend who is a #gardener extraordinaire, #vermiculturist , super #composter & the organizer of many school gardens in #Okanogan county, has sent out an appeal for his friend, a #sustainable #food advocate in #Congo, who has had to flee his community under threat to his life. He has taken refuge in the UN HQ in Kinshasa. His story reminds me of the dangers progressives face around the world. We are helping him come to the US and hope to learn from him. See comments for story!

katch wreck
1 month ago

`What Morton called "Spanish" were the tresillo and habanera rhythms of the Cuban contradanza ("habanera"). Morton demonstrated the "tinge" to Alan Lomax in the 1938 Library of Congress recordings. What is known in Latin music as the habanera rhythm is also known as the congo, tango-congo, and tango`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Tinge

#jellyRollMorton #jazz #history #music #rhythm #spanish #tango #contradanza #habanera #alanLomax #libraryOfCongress #latinMusic #congo

Jonathan
1 month ago

There are only 3,000 km of paved roads in DRC compared to 13,000 km in #Kenya, despite this there is alarming logging in the country's #Congo forest, sometimes bad roads are hindering massive loggings.

A house earthed up by falling trees in DRC
A man repairing a road for logging in DRC
Maggie
1 month ago

What happens when you start trusting women? We have the receipts https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/feb/13/v-day-womens-rights-activism-gender-feminism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is a report on an inspiring group of international work accomplished by strong women. #women #brazil #congo #afghanistan #change @rabbijill

Associazione Peacelink
1 month ago

Limes: "Il tesoro del #Congo"

Associazione Peacelink
1 month ago

#Cina-#Congo. È attesa per febbraio 2023 la prima spedizione di #rame proveniente dalla miniera di Kamoa-Kakula nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo meridionale e diretta in Cina. Dopo il viaggio via terra fino al porto di Durban in Sudafrica, l’“oro rosso” salperà verso il gigante economico asiatico.
Limes

kilombavita
1 month ago

https://archive.org/details/eclair-organe-de-combat

L'Eclair. Organe de combat de l'Union des Jeunesses Révolutionnaires Congolaises by Union des Jeunesses Révolutionnaires Congolaises; Gongo-Musengere, ; Fédération des Etudiants d'Afrique Noire en France; William Nguembus; Christophe Kahindo; Constantin Kibwe; Comité National de Libération; Mademoiselle L.; Ajet Simixhiu; François Fosso; Titus

Topics
#CongoKinshasa, #CongoLéopoldville, #CongoBrazzaville, #PierreMulele, #Congo, #Marxisme-Léninisme, #MaoTsétoung, #antirévisionnisme, #antiimpérialisme, #Chine, #LeonardMitudidi, #PatriceLumumba, #RébellionduKwilu, #RébellionSimba, #OsendeAfana, #luttearmée, #néocolonialisme, #journalismerévolutionnaire, #Unionsoviétique, #Belgique, #impérialismebelge

L'Eclair, Avril 1967
Troisième Année
Numéro 12 (2/67)
L'Union des Jeunesses Révolutionnaires Congolaises - UJRC était un mouvement clandestin de jeunes intellectuels congolais (Léopoldville/Kinshasa), étudiants en Europe en majorité, partisans des thèses chinoises et albanaises et soutenant les maquis mulélistes et soumialistes. Fondé début 1965, il appela début 1967 à la création de noyaux marxistes-léninistes, préalable à la fondation d'un parti marxiste-léniniste, mais son existence prit fin au cours de la même année.

Scott Campbell
1 month ago

Review of "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild

The story told here is important - one of slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, capitalist extractivism. The manner in which it is told leaves much to be desired. It is a liberal, general audience, novelesque, non-analytic text written from a white man's gaze, and contains/lacks what one would expect from a book written from such a perspective.

The biggest drawback is one that the author himself partially acknowledges: the lack of actual Congolese voices in a history of the Congo. But the remedy is problematic as well. Instead, what we have are chapters framed almost universally around singular white men and their terrible or terrific deeds. The ten million lost souls seem muted in a text ostensibly about them and what they were subjected to. Even the few Congolese sources or actors that are present receive secondary treatment in the midst of the greater narratives of the central cast of European and U.S. characters. For a book about the Congo, the Congo often feels extremely absent.

While perhaps I am accustomed to reading academic non-fiction, I was surprised at the severe lack of analysis contained in this text. In telling the story without interrogating the story, it seemed to be actively occluding what should be obvious but dangerous questions and answers, in particular about race, slavery, Blackness, and the Human. In a recent journal article on the anti-Blackness of the discipline of history, Afro-pessimist academic David Ponton writes, "For scholars, the Human seems never to appear as an object of knowledge except when the social death of Black folks becomes so glaring that it threatens to deconstruct that category entirely. History, in turn, rallies in humanity’s defense—reconstituting the Human and the codes that constitute its content." This is what reading the book felt like - the social death of the Congolese was so threatening a topic, the author had to save the Human by focusing on all the good that various humans [read white Europeans] did regarding the Congo amid the bad. It also explains the author's frequent referencing and drawing of equivalency between the trans-Atlantic slave trade and "indigenous" slavery on the African continent, as well as his exculpation of colonialism for Africa's [writ large] current predicament.

If you're looking for a non-challenging, unthreatening read about an appalling chapter of Europe's colonization of Africa, then this book is a good choice. If you're looking for something that dives deeper to truly interrogate the construction and functioning of systems such as anti-Blackness, colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism that facilitate(d) the horrors in the Congo, I'd suggest you look elsewhere.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #review #books #reading #history #Africa #Congo

🎶🎶 Fulu Miziki (Kolektiv)

🔗 https://amf.didiermary.fr/fulu-miziki-kolektiv/?mtm_campaign=TrackingMSTDN&mtm_kwd=DirectAMF&mtm_source=Mastodon

📨 The story of Fulu Miziki [music from the garbage] is sprawling and complex and constantly evolving, with various offshoots and band iterations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gm39XHKpg
Kraut - Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa

#️⃣ #Electro #EDM #Rap #HipHop #Congo(s) #CongoPunk #Congotronics

bs2
2 months ago

> #PopeFrancis..condemned “economic colonialism” in Africa.. “poison of greed” for mineral resources..[in] the.. #Congo.
> “.. this country, massively plundered, has not benefited.. from its immense resources,” he told [in Italian] an audience of #Congolese politicians and other dignitaries..
> .. the DRC’s history had been hobbled by conflict and a history of foreign domination. “Political #exploitation gave way to an economic #colonialism that was equally enslaving,”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/pope-francis-poison-of-greed-fuelling-conflict-congo

bs2
2 months ago

> “Power is meaningful only if it becomes a form of service,” Francis said, admonishing authoritarianism and greed.
> “Torn by war, the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to witness within its confines conflicts and forced migrations, and to suffer from terrible forms of exploitation, unworthy of humanity and of creation,” Francis said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/world/africa/pope-francis-africa-congo.html
#PopeFrancis #LaudatoSi #FratelliTutti in #Africa #Congo

Jonathan
2 months ago

Pope Francis criticised those he said have been keen on stifling progress in #Africa, and especially in the DR #Congo, telling the rich world that the people in the continent are more precious than the minerals in the earth beneath them.

James Kanter
2 months ago

Poster of Hergé's most controversial Tintin volume prominently displayed in a Brussels children's toy store. #Decolonising #Belgium #Congo

Ludovic
2 months ago

Mon partenaire figuriniste raconte nos parties bien mieux que moi.
C'est plus facile en trichant... - Au bord du Fleuve
http://auborddufleuve.canalblog.com/archives/2023/01/21/39787554.html?t=1674338659688
#belliciste #congo

MikeDunnAuthor
2 months ago

Today in labor History January 17, 1961: Patrice Lumumba, anti-colonial fighter and former premier of the newly independent Republic of the Congo, was assassinated with the complicity of the CIA. President Eisenhower authorized an assassination in 1960, because of Lumumba’s ties with the Soviet Union. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb planned to kill him with a poisoned toothpaste. Gottlieb was the main scientist behind the CIA’s MKUltra program, which did illegal human mind control experiments with drugs, like LSD, without the victim’s knowledge or consent. He was also involved in numerous assassinations.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #congo #cia #mkultra #assassination #imperialism #lumumba #lsd

Portrait of Patrice Lumumba in a suit and bowtie
Digits
2 months ago

New Pierre Kwenders! "No No No" gets three new remixes. I think this smooth and subtle Vanyfox version is my fave.

https://therealpierrekwenders.bandcamp.com/track/no-no-no-vanyfox-remix

#music #montreal #congo #lisbon #angola

kilombavita
3 months ago

https://archive.org/details/bago-sene-mongaba

Sene Mongaba : Bagó - Kimbangula - Kamusi - Nkongamyaku - Dictionnaire - Dictionary (Édition 2021) by Bienvenu Sene Mongaba; Daniel Ngandu; François Miteo; Ange Manguanda; Sara Sene Mortoni

Topics
#Lingala, #Kikongo, #Kiswahili, #Tshiluba, #français, #english, #Congo, #Kongo, #translationdictionary, #translationdictionaries, #multilingualdictionary, #multilingualdictionaries

Bruxelles - Wavre - Kinshasa : Éditions Mabiki

CineversityTV
3 months ago

Yes, the Musk soap doesn't stop, #tyrant #sociopath #Elon "free speech" #Musk is in fact a pathetic petty man.
Taking "legal" action against Jack Sweeney #ElonJet at #twitter.
The flight information of his private jet is in the public domain and can be found by anyone.

The #pathetic #billionaire and his #lawyers go after the #student for publishing this info.
The student has opened a new account @ElonJetNextDay that published the same info only 24 hours later.
I personally believe #Sweeney shouldn't have faltered because it shows that Elon is basically a jerk!
Elon's Twitter takeover is a textbook #fascist takeover
Once more the world is shown that justice is an exception when you are a billionaire.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63978323

#boycottMusk #boycottTesla #COP15 @COP27 #TwitterMigration #RIPtwitter #animalcruelty #Neuralink #Tesla #Congo #Africa #childlabor #slaves #CNN #BBC #Guardian #France24 #Bild #CNBC

Elon calls it #doxing, we call it a blame game invented by jerk Musk.

Jonathan
3 months ago
A member of the Un Jour Nouveau organisation holds a child during a Christmas activity in Kanyarushinya on December 24, 2022.

 

Photo credit: AFP
CineversityTV
3 months ago

If this is true than it really exposes the #tyrant and now #liar #Elon 'Free speech" #Musk.
This is what a #journalist writes about being banned and locked out of #twitter
"My suspension lasted just a few days before my account was reinstated. When people visit my Twitter profile, it no longer says “account suspended,” and it looks as if I’m back on the platform. Friends and strangers alike have reached out to me saying it’s good to see that I’m back on Twitter. It’s an illusion.
In reality, I’m still locked out of my Twitter account unless I agree to delete a specific tweet.
We call that censorship and blackmail.

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

#1984 #TwitterMigration #RIPtwitter #animalcruelty #Neuralink #Tesla #Congo #Africa #childlabor #slaves #censorship #blackmail

personally
3 months ago

@cybeardjm Indeed! Thank you for sharing the context of Louis Armstrong's trip to Ghana and Congo. It's always interesting to learn more about the history and experiences of such a iconic and influential musician. #LouisArmstrong #Ghana #Congo

kilombavita
3 months ago

https://archive.org/details/kabila-et-1

Kabila et la révolution congolaise: Panafricanisme ou néocolonialisme? Tome 1 by Ludo Martens; Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi

Topics
#Congo, #CongoKinshasa, #RDC, #RépubliquedémocratiqueduCongo, #LaurentDésiréKabila, #GrandsLacs, #politiqueafricaine, #impérialisme, #néocolonialisme

En 1979, Ludo Martens invite Kabila à Bruxelles. Depuis, son engagement pour le Congo n'a pas fléchi. Son livre transporte le lecteur dans ce pays complexe, où de nombreuses familles survivent avec 10 dollars par mois et où le peuple a enterré trois millions et demi de victimes en trois années de guerre et d'occupations étrangères. L'auteur rapporte ses entretiens avec des dizaines de militants de base œuvrant pour un changement radical.

kilombavita
3 months ago

https://archive.org/details/lingen

Lingala Dictionary & Phrasebook: A Language of Central Africa. Lingala-English/English-Lingala by Aquilina Mawadza; Yeno Matuka

Topics
#Lingala, #dictionary, #dictionaries, #bilingualdictionary, #bilingualdictionaries, #translationdictionary, #translationdictionaries, #phrasebook, #phrasebooks, #bagó, #lingɛlɛ́sa, #búku, #Congo, #Kongo, #Kongó, #KongóKinsásá, #RepublíkiyaKongóDemokratíki

Lingala (a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family) is spoken by approximately 10 million people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Angola. It originated in the Equatorial Region of the DRC, but as the official language of the Army, it became the major language of the Capital city, Kinshasa. Lingala is considered one of the national languages of the DRC.

This dictionary uses the simplified Lingala dialect, also known as Lingala facile. It is mostly a spoken language.

This unique, two-part resource provides travelers to central Africa with the tools they need for daily interaction. The bilingual dictionary has a concise vocabulary for everyday use, and the phrasebook allows instant communication on a variety of topics.

Jonathan
3 months ago

Things are not looking good in DR #Congo, 🇨🇩

Jonathan
4 months ago

Fierce fighting has erupted between M23 rebels and militiamen in eastern Democratic Republic of #Congo, local sources said reporting an unconfirmed number of fatalities.

Martin De Wulf
4 months ago

This introduced me a bit to #GIS, a field in which I'm more and more working these days and that I love. It happens that there a tons of stuff that is not mapped yet, like villages in DR #Congo, for example.

It's a field where there is still room for tons of software improvements. Some features that you would think would be done by now, are actually still challenging, like getting tons of interactive shapes on a map in a browser.

Jonathan
4 months ago

UPDATE: In DR #Congo, more than 8,000 youths selected for military recruitment announced by President Tshisekedi as part of general mobilisation. The recruits will do the training at Camp Kitona in Bas-Congo.

Congolese armed forces during training
Javed Ali
4 months ago

@academicchatter
If you’re residents/nationals of #Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the #Congo, #India, #Indonesia, #Philippines, and #SouthAfrica, apply for Disaster & Climate Risk Data Fellows.

It is a 6-month fellowship to work on the new Risk Data Library Standard. It’s organized by #GFDRR facility of the World Bank. They are looking for #data #scientists, #geospatial #analysts, and similar from selected #climate-vulnerable countries.

More information👉 https://www.gfdrr.org/en/feature-story/disaster-climate-risk-data-fellows

Jonathan
4 months ago

Young activists are cooking porridge and handing out bread for children and pregnant mothers displaced by a rebel insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of #Congo.

Reuters

Young activists cooking porridge and handing out bread for children and pregnant mothers displaced by a rebel insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.