Ota Benga Alliance For Peace, Healing and Dignity

The most overused explanation for the continuing chaos and warfare in the DRCongo is its fabulous and legendary resources (gold, copper, cobalt, uranium, diamonds, coltan, timber, water, etc.). Recently, thanks to Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, the public can connect today's situation to what happened a century ago. This book was not only a useful reminder of the genocidal impact of Belgian conquest on the Congolese people, it also provided a graphic, raw illustration of the principles by which political and financial leaders having been ruling the world as a whole.  read more »

The battle for fidelity to humanity/dignity

Thanks to the work of John Thornton (The Kongolese St. Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. Cambridge University Press, 1998), the reading public has access to a history of connection between the Kongo Kingdom and Saint Domingue.

The Story of Kimpa Vita (Dona Beatriz)  read more »