While we were on vacation this past summer, something big happened. Many of you no doubt have heard by now of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ mapping report, which, among other things, details the human rights abuses committed by Rwandan troops against Hutu refugees in then-Zaire in 1996-1997. The report, after a delay, is finally set to be made public today.
Truth Will Out
October 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Independence Cha Cha Cha
April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
@Boima (at Ghetto Bassquake) posted a music video (via Sonja Uwimana) by the Congolese artist Baloji, “… the greatest music video maker in the world right now.” Baloji is doing an update of Grand Kalle et l’African Jazz’s independence rumba from 1960.
Remember Baloji’s last effort? He is killing it now.
UPDATE:
My man, Tom Devriendt–his day job is PhD student at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium–send me this note with some more information on Baloji’s exploits:
Rumble in the Jungle
January 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Revisiting the Muhammed Ali-George Foreman fight in the then-Ziare in 1975 as performance art.
AT LEAST THINGS WERE STABLE UNDER MOBUTU
August 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, conservative columnist Michael O’Hanlon goes on about a permanent US military presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (this in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Eastern Congo, the site of a civil war implicating not just Congolese but two other countries in the region).
