The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U. S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.
Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
I feel very passionate that we need CAT scanners in every country in the world. There's not a CAT scanner in all of eastern Congo. People don't use the word "cancer" because they don't get diagnosed. They just die.
I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.
