MALAKI MA KONGO
Anthem
And for Malaki ma Kongo
and for the whole world
Start again
Start again
Even if you feel the fatigue
Even if an error hurts you
Even if a treachery wounds you
Even if an illusion dies out
Start again
Start again
Even if pain burns your eyes
Even if your efforts are ignored
Even if tears of defeat
run down your eyes
Even if you feel misunderstood
Start again
Start again
Start again
Even if injustice always seems
to have the better
Even if you feel fear
in the deepest of yourself
Even if the others abandon you
Even if they make you pay a price

Start again
Start again

Start again
every day with patience and love
Start again
in sunny days as in storm days
Start again
with love and never discouraging yourself
For God
with God
like God
For your people
with your people
like your people
Those who sow in pain
harvest singing

Cheikh Anta Diop
" The essential for a people
is not much being able to glorify itself
by a past more or less majestic,
but it is more about discovering
and taking consciousness
of this past's continuity,
whatever this past was."

Preface to the 1964 edition
of Negro's Nation and Culture
(Paris, African presence, I edition, 1954).

L. Bilolo
In homage to Cheikh Anta Diop
To cure our inferiority complexes
To discover the hidden but real face
of the deep and eternal Africa
To give ourselves the means
for a development
autocentered on Man rooted
in his ancestral culture

Zunga Mvuala: 
febr.8th 1948 : 
Telling our grandsons' grandsons
what our grandparents' grandparents
saw and lived

Masengo Ma Mbongolo:
Recreating in Africa
the moral, intellectual
and geopolitical conditions
for the Pharaons' Renaissance

«Make quickly a tam-tam, if you don't want your people to disappear», says a Native American proverb.
Each people has its own name Each people has its own territory
Each people has its own culture
A name identifies a people, and reveals its primary essence, the quintessence of the way traced to them by God.
Their name is their compass. Culture is each people's divine path's code.
Culture is each people's initiatic walk, according to God's will.
Culture is each people's true religion.
All people who lost their culture lost their religion, their God, and they are lost forever.
Using others' culture is auto-damnation in eternity.
It is not given to use it other than to appropriate ourselves of a temporary necessity.
All people who minimized their culture, their language to think  in others' culture and language have accepted the chains of underdevelopment, slavery.
Territory is the virtual space donated by God. It is the vase from which the products that will nourish God's sons will come out.
It happens that an historical force obliges you to migrate out of your fronteers, but free people always have to return to the paths' crossing where God waits for them to walk on the divine path.
Our territory is also our body of which culture is the soul.

Masengo Ma Mbongolo (Malaki '99)