«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."
Cheikh Anta Diop
 Dirty cloths are to be washed within
the family, they say. That's why Malaki ma Kongo, association for
the promotion of African cultural roots in service of Responsible
Development, invites all Africans - but not only! - from east and
west of the Atlantic Ocean to go back to African ancestors' steps.
We'll
walk
throughout
the close yet faraway time of enslavery, to cover Africa from Goreè Island
just to the black continent's heart.
We'll go through many villages where monuments, valleys, mountains,
roots, leaves, trees and - why not -the wind will refresh our memory.
It may happen that, while we sleep, during a dream a fly, or a beetle,
or a fish, or - why not - an elephant will sing us songs that we
kind of remember.
Yes, we'll walk
to touch reality by hand and to give ourself a personal judgement
about what really happened more than 500 years ago.
AIM : to preserve collective memory
OBJECTIVES :
1- Creating a dialogue space for the Reconciliation of African people
from East and west of the Atlantic Ocean;
2- Promoting African Cultural roots
3- Re-writing our history
4- Entering in Communion
with our ancestors by participating at the Tricontinental Festival Malaki
ma Kongo.
CIRCUIT of the VOYAGE
a/ Gorée Island and Dakar city in Sénégal ; b/ Bénin:
we'll touch by hand an unusual expérience of retourning to
Africa realised
10 years ago by the JAH family, who went there from Guadeloupe.
Visit to the Temple of
Pythons in Ouidah and organization of a forum about: «The
importance of the
Exchanges between African people from East and west of the
Atlantic Ocean» ;
c/ In Ghana we'll visit the Slaves Road, the city of Accra,
some exemples of investments by Black diaspora, following
a show-dinner for solidarity with « The initiatives of the
exchanges between African people from East and west of the
Atlantic Ocean» ;
d/ The two Congoes, in Brazzaville and in Kinshasa we'll
participate at the Tricontinental Festival MALAKI ma KONGO,
and we'll visit the two capital cities.Iin Pointe Noirewe'll
visit the Monument of Memory
and the humanitarian action of MALAKI DEVELOPMENT
(Centre of sewing education for young women and the
Pilote Agricole Center);
e/ In Nzinzi (Pointe Noire) we're waited to close in beauty
the Tricontinental Festival MALAKI ma KONGOand « tell our
children' children what our fathers' fathers lived».
ORGANIZATORS : Malaki ma Kongo in collaboration
with local social organisations from East and west of
the Atlantic Ocean, they invite us to go to Africa not to sympathise
with lions, gyraffes or crocodiles but to fraternize with
human beings.
MALAKI MA KONGO is one of the rare cultural African meetings
(in the modern sense of the term) which is made in Congo
by the funds and sweat of artists and men of culture. THese
ones are willing of preserving their freedom and independence
of expression in all cultural and artistic work. Malaki ma
Kongo organization and especially its orientation try to
preserve African cultural logic from external influences
or inspirations. Malaki ma Kongo is unpublished spectacles
inspired by the rich territory tradition; living, eating,
drinking and speaking as in the good culturally virgin time
before the Portugueses; re-living the past enjoying
Ngoma ya Kongo, the party drum which used to accompany night
fields of crickets fanfare to excite the night dances of
engoulevents birds.
Malaki ma Kongo, is the return to the origins through
the magic of theatre: camp fires, drums choir, rattle bells,
... We'll live all that savoring biyoki, cane and ananas
beer, mbulu and samba, kola, pepper in grains, and - why
not - mundiondio.
Malaki ma kongo is a festival « prêt â porter », able to
wander not only from country to country but also from continent
to continent. Since 2002 Malaki ma Kongo is celebrated in
3 continents: Africa in the two Congoes, Europe in Italy
and France, America in Haiti, Guadaloupe, Dominican Republic,
Guyana.
BENEFITS :
Preserving collective memory
Re-writing Africa true
history and knowing the true meaning of words like
Africa, Sénégal, Congo, Namibie, Zimbabwe,
Mali, Cameroun, Guinée…
MODALITY OF VOYAGE :
Responsible
Tourism: We won't stay in big hotels, we'll stay
by local people houses or by rooms
we'll rent from local families' houses (all people
that are Malaki ma Kongo members), or local small hotels
held by local families .
Transportation will be, depending on circumstances: local
city bus, trains, taxi, cars rented on place, airplanes etc.
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Contact
:+39 349 33 29 339 / 347 9185095
info@malakimakongo.net
www.malakimakongo.net
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Malaki Development,
Center for young women education in sewing
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Malaki-AARIT
Pilot Agriculture Center
(Pointe Noire, Congo) |
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