“Why is the world still watching , why is there no action“? The situation in The Congo is beyond deplorable as civilized nations & people turn a blind eye. The world is troubled & we all have our individual problems, but the cloud of helplessness & hopelessness for us all as individuals to create change in our own circumstances & in the circumstances of our fellow human beings is extremely dangerous to the survival of humanity, particularly in African nations who have endured & survived through slavery & colonialism to have found freedom only to turn back the clock of time to enslave, rape, murder & continue the practices & ills of enslavement & colonization upon our own people. The oppressor who now stands between the Congolese & their freedom & pursuit of happiness is now their fellow neighbors who look just like them, have the same ancestry & shared the same struggles toward freedom.

“In one of those stories that will leave you shaking your head in disbelief, aid workers in the Congo reported that 200 women and baby boys were gang raped over a four-day period not far from a United Nation’s peacekeepers base near a mining district. Rwandan and Congolese rebels in the eastern Congo are being blamed for the raping and looting attacks. Though the U.N. had peacekeepers in a village less than 20 miles away from where the rapes occurred, they were outnumbered by rebels by more than 10 to 1, according to witness reports.No one was killed in the attacks. Women and four young boys ranging from 1 month to 18 months of age were systematically raped in front of family members or dragged into the woods and attacked there…” READ MORE

The politics of war, divide & conquer occurring throughout the world has sheltered lawlessness & savagery amongst humans based on ideology, tribalism, religion, race, socio-economic class & false sense of nationalism that foregoes our basic shared principals of humanity for much too long & it seems to be getting worse. We can no longer be paralyzed by our feelings of hopelessness & helplessness and allow our global leaders to take away the power of the people who they are to serve in our best interests because as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere“. Let’s all do our part to keep Humanity Alive!

“It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world. Although most Africans are poor, our continent is potentially extremely rich. Our mineral resources, which are being exploited with foreign capital only to enrich foreign investors, range from gold and diamonds to uranium and petroleum. Our forests contain some of the finest woods to be grown anywhere. Our cash crops include cocoa, coffee, rubber, tobacco and cotton. As for power, which is an important factor in any economic development, Africa contains over 40% of the potential water power of the world, as compared with about 10% in Europe and 13% in North America. Yet so far, less than 1% has been developed. This is one of the reasons why we have in Africa the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty, and scarcity in the midst of abundance. Never before have a people had within their grasp so great an opportunity for developing a continent endowed with so much wealth. Individually, the independent states of Africa, some of them potentially rich, others poor, can do little for their people. Together, by mutual help, they can achieve much. But the economic development of the continent must be planned and pursued as a whole. A loose confederation designed only for economic co-operation would not provide the necessary unity of purpose. Only a strong political union can bring about full and effective development of our natural resources for the benefit of our people..” Kwame Nkrumah, I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology
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Photo Credit: Ano Mboligikpelani, 12, holds her sister, Honrine Ngbadulezele, 2, in the village of Bangadi in northeastern Congo, February 19, 2009. Thousands of Congolese have fled their villages since December as Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels roaming the bush carry out massacres that have killed some 900 civilians in northeastern Congo during the past two months. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly)