Mangeuse de Cuivre

On this blog, I share pictures, videos, and articles that I come across. The main topic is the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://243elikya.tumblr.com/ is the French version of Mangeuse de Cuivre.

[mrsm-h]

He called out to his Mom .... who died 2 years ago on this same day😭😭😭😭😭RIP

Handcuffed.

Face Down.

Knee on his neck.

They did nothing.

He called the officer "Sir."

They did nothing.

He begged for his life.

He begged for water.

He begged for mercy.

They did nothing.

His nose bled.

His body trembled.

He lost control of his bladder.

They did nothing.

He cried out, "I can't breathe."

They did nothing.

Twelve more times.

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

"I can't breathe."

They did nothing.

One last time, he gasped, "I can't breathe."

They did nothing.

He lost consciousness.

They did nothing.

A firefighter demanded they check his pulse.

They did nothing.

Off duty medical personnel begged them to stop.

They did nothing.

Deprived of oxygen.

His organs screaming.

His brain frantic.

They did nothing.

They watched George Floyd die.

His life fading.

A slow death.

They did nothing.

A lynching on the ground.

They did nothing.

For eight agonizing minutes.

Four officers watched.

He cried out for his Mom...

A grown man...

Crying out for the woman who gave him life....

As he feared joining her in death.

And still they did nothing.

A black man.

A gentle giant.

Murdered because he was black.

And still, they've done nothing..

The officers should be arrested.

And still they've done nothing.

Dont be too heartless to type REST IN PEACE

Rest In Peace 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

May justice be served

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DON'T BREAK THE CHAIN

LET'S REACH 10 MILLION SHARES

BLACK IS HUMAN TOO, NO HUMAN BEING IS MORE HUMAN THAN ANOTHER HUMAN

[vintagecongo]

From a Nshindi family photo album. Photographer unknown. Kinshasa, Zaïre c. 1975.

[passionfruit-lemonadelove]

October is here already, which means that only 3 months are left to wrap-up 2014.

We don’t have to wait the New Year to take on some new actions or resolutions. Actually this is the best time to reflect and assess 2014 and to plan ahead for next year.

So here are 3 thing we should do to prepare...

[passionfruit-lemonadelove]

Now that phones, cameras and social network are such an important part of our lives, it has become very difficult to control our rights to our image and privacy.

So often, you attend a social gathering (your BFF’s birthday bash, after work drinks with the colleagues, or any random event) and next...

[dynamicafrica]

Serena Williams, World Number One, Beats Wozniacki to Win Sixth U.S. Open Title.

Winning her third U.S. Open championship title in a row on Sunday, pushing her total to six, and her 18th overall Grand Slam win, Williams joined two other legendary women’s tennis players American Chris Evert and Czech-American Martina Navratilova (pictured above) who both won 18 Grand Slams during their careers.

All three are now tied in fourth place for the most won Grand Slam singles of all time in women’s tennis. Australia’s Margaret Court sits at the top spot with 24 Grand Slam singles wins.

Williams, who won her first U.S. Open in 1999 at just 17, beat Danish player Caroline Wozniacki, 6-3, 6-3, with a score that looked similar to all her other games at the tournament.

Aside from the massive trophy, Williams left the court with prize money totaling $US4 million ($4.33 million), which includes a $US1 million bonus for winning the US Open summer series. Oh, and we can’t forget the 18 carat Tiffany’s bracelet Evert and Navratilova gifted Williams with for her accomplishment.

Bravo!

[blackaroundtheworld]

Repost from @nichowen : “A United States of Africa? Not Yet: In his 1924 poem, “Hail! United States of Africa,” #MarcusGarvey saw unity as a way to liberate Africans from foreign repression. He tapped himself as “Provisional President of Africa,” according to Colin Grant, the author of a biography of Garvey. That dream was still alive in 1979, when #BobMarley released “#AfricaUnite,” singing, “How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man/ To see the unification of all #Africans.” We are more connected than your wildest imagination. We just haven’t acted on its full potential. “

[ourafrica]

"Africans go to jail for poaching, white men go home with trophy"

[dynamicafrica]

Great Concern As Parents of Missing #Chibok Schoolgirls Tragically Pass Away.

This headline is so shocking and heartbreaking it’s almost unbelievable. 11 parents of the missing Chibok schoolgirls have died or have been killed in the three months since their abduction.

According to a report by AP, seven of the girls’ fathers were among over 50 bodies that were brought to a hospital in the area after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month. Four more parents are said to have died from heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses many blame on the trauma sustained from this incident.

Speaking out on this issue, community leader Pogo Bitrus has said, “one father of two of the girls kidnapped just went into a kind of coma and kept repeating the names of his daughters, until life left him.”

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been heavily criticized for his slow response and the ineffective manner in which he has been handling both this situation and the greater Boko Haram threat, met with some of the victim’s parents and their classmates on Tuesday where he promised to continue efforts to bring back the girls alive.

Meanwhile, the town of Chibok seems to be in more and more danger as Boko Haram continue to gain ground in the surrounding area. Over the weekend, the terrorist group launched several raids in northeastern Nigerian towns and villages where they also attacked an army base in the strategic town of Damboa. This particular attack saw as many as 15, 000 civilians fleeing the area as a result.

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[blackcontemporaryart]

Zemba Luzamba Born in 1973 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa

[fredjoiner]

[stay-human]

I cannot recommend this video enough. This woman breaks it down perfectly.

The Stories That Europe Tells Itself About Its Colonial History

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She said once she was shocked that her son while being taught Belgian history, was taught nothing about Congo. She said “They teach my son in school that he must help the poor Africans, but they don’t teach him about what Belgium did in Congo.” Of course, all countries are evasive about the past for which they feel ashamed, but I was shocked by what seemed to me not evasiveness but an erasure of history. 

If her son doesn’t learn that the modern Congo State began a hundred years ago as the personal property of a Belgian king, who was desperate to get wealthy from ivory and rubber, if her son doesn’t learn that the hands of Congolese people were chopped off for not producing enough resources to meet the king’s greed, if her son doesn’t learn that the Belgian government later led Congo with a deliberate emphasis on not producing an educated class, so that Congolese could become clerks and mechanics but couldn’t go to university, if her son doesn’t learn that more recently, even though it was the Americans who installed the Mobutu dictatorship, Belgium was a major force behind the scenes propping him up, if this young Belgian boy, knows nothing about these incidents, then, at some point, they would perhaps no longer have happened because the past after all is the past because we collectively acknowledged that it is so. 

This young Belgian boy would grow up to see Africa only as a place that requires his aid, his help, his charity with no complications for him. A place that can help him show how compassionate he can be, and most of all, a place whose present has no connection to Europe. 

It is not that Europe has denied its colonial history. Instead, Europe has developed a way of telling the story of its colonial history that ultimately seeks to erase that history”

[legrandcirque]

A young girl riding her bicycle from the market. Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Belgian Congo, April 1953.

[a--fri--ca]

Mangbetu women’s clothing, Medje village, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), 1970 - Photo by Eliot Elisofon

“The photograph depicts woman wearing traditional barkcloth ‘negbe’. The main item of women’s clothing was a rectangular barkcloth garment called ‘nogetwe’. Worn like a short skirt or sometimes like an apron, it was left open to reveal the ‘negbe’, or back apron. Women generally wore barkcloth when they were not at work and when strangers were present.” (Schildkrout E., Keim C., 1990: African Reflections, University of Washington Press)

(National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution)

[mangeusesdecuivre]

"Shot in the streets of Kinshasa, site of Muhammad Ali’s legendary ‘Rumble in the Jungle’, Karibu Ya Bintou (“Welcome to Life in Limbo”) is a short film with music from the 2010 album ‘Kinshasa Succursale’ by Baloji. Electric finger piano (likembé): played by Konono N°1, the legendary Congolese band who collaborated with Björk & count Vampire Weekend and Beck amongst their biggest fans." (Sean Jacobs)

[mangeusesdecuivre]

Paris exhibition traces link between works of Bantu speakers spread along the banks of Africa's Congo river

[mangeusesdecuivre]

Art Luba: Description d'une oeuvre sculptée attribuée au maître de Buli.

[mangeusesdecuivre]

Des anciens kulunas deviennent des joueurs de tam-tams. Apprendre un métier peut leur permettre d'abandonner la violence.

[nganji]

Whether in Kinshasa or not, this essential book by In Koli Jean Bofane will give you plenty of food for thought. / On the cover, photography by Kiripi Katembo /