Welcome to the Ota Benga Alliance!

Sat, 04/07/2007 - 08:35 |

In honoring Ota Benga, we focus our efforts on the need to treat each other with dignity, with respect for cultural diversity as a source of strength, and with truth as a foundation for genuine reconciliation to end the cycles of violence, vengeance, and militarism. We believe that peace and dignity cannot be achieved while the injustices of the past and present are buried in silence, and while the struggles of the present go unheard.


(c) Mumia Abu Jamal
Find out more about Ota Benga

Welcome! We are the Ota Benga Alliance for Peace, Healing and Dignity in the D.R. Congo and beyond, located in Berkeley, California and Kinshasa, D.R. Congo.

Who was Ota Benga? A Congolese man, brought to the United States to be exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. He was an Mbuti (a pygmy), about 4 feet 8 inches tall, put on display at the Fair’s Hall of Man along with an exotic collection of indigenous peoples from all over the world. Ota Benga was exhibited next to a group of Native Americans that included Geronimo.  read more »

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Dr Denis Mukwege's Presentation to the United Nations 25/9/2012

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 15:28 |

Your Excellencies, Mr. Ambassadors,

I would have liked to begin my speech with the usual formulation, "I have the honour and privilege of taking the floor before you."

Alas! The women victims of sexual violence in Eastern DRC are in dishonor. I constantly with my own eyes see the elder women, the young girls, the mothers and even the babies dishonored.

Still today, many are subjected to sexual slavery; others are used as a weapon of war. Their organs are exposed to the most abhorrent ill-treatment.  read more »

Tentative d'assassinat de Dr. Denis Mukwege à Bukavu, Joseph Kabila ne connait pas non plus le docteur des femmes violées?

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 15:02 |

Par Freddy Mulongo--Vendredi 26 octobre 2012. Un gouvernement responsable protège tous ses citoyens. Et il veuille à ce que l'élite du pays ne soit pas décapiter. Or que voyons-nous en République démocratique du Congo, on tue, on assassine, on zigpouille l'élite congolaise: activistes des droits de l'homme, journalistes, acteurs politiques de l'opposition.  read more »

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CABRAL AND THE DISPOSSESSION (DEHUMANIZATION) OF HUMANITY

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 16:39 |

It has been pointed out that the assassination of Amilcar Cabral marked the end of a sequence of history (Michael Neocosmos) namely the end of politics through armed struggles. In the process of thinking and re-thinking the legacy of Amilcar Cabral is it possible to say anything that has not been already said, either by himself, or by those who have written about him? Is it possible to go beyond just citing words and/or phrases that reconnect to his vision of an emancipated Africa?  read more »

DE RIO 92 À RIO 92+20 À RIO MOINS L’HUMANITÉ

Fri, 07/06/2012 - 19:27 |

Si tout le monde, semble-t-il, s’y attendait, pourquoi la paralysie ? Le capitalisme
serait-il devenu la nicotine de l’humanité ?

Pendant les siècles d’installation de la prédation comme méthode d’organiser
tous les rapports humains/eau/air/terre , ceux qui se sont trouvés aux postes
de décisions des destinées de l’humanité ont appris plusieurs leçons, parmi
lesquelles, semble-t-il, celle de ne penser l’humanité qu’à travers les objectifs de
la prédation, à savoir un mode de vivre réduit à la survie des plus puissants.  read more »

MUMIA ABU JAMAL AT 58: APRIL 24 2012

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 16:09 |

Being a late happy birthday

At fifty plus eight on April 24, 2012. A “lifer”, Mumia Abu Jamal continues resisting a system determined to liquidate him, his humanity, his story, our history. If we (all who admire him) were to resist like him, the world would be pulsating in synchrony with humanity, not for its liquidation.

At 58
Too many years
Face to face
Staring death made visible inescapable
So far a conscience stronger
Has kept death away
A shining diamond conscience
Keeps shaming
An opaque, fraudulent, corrupt
Justice system that has accommodated  read more »

Haïti, Afrique, Aristide : pour l’histoire d’une seule humanité

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 22:03 |

Depuis l’époque où les Africains, concentrés contre leur gré à Saint Domingue (Haïti), se sont révoltés pour mettre fin à l’esclavage (1791-1804), sans l’approbation des abolitionnistes, ces derniers et les alliés de ceux qui avaient perdu cette bataille-là s’organisèrent pour que l’émancipation de l’humanité soit faite selon leur volonté.  read more »

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