1st and 2nd editions
of MALAKI MA KONGO Festival
press 1991
The first two editions of MALAKI MA KONGO festival can be summarized as a traditional entertainment with manioc tubers, potatoes, ignam tuber, corn, peanuts, the fodder “made in Kongo”, author of the big Camp Fire.
Malaki ma Kongo was very established, above all the african parable “bunzonzi”: exchange a verb, a smile, friendship so that hearts become permeables to their neighbor’s message. All this in a love and solidarity burst for finally a new Kongo to be born again, our beautiful country.
The party was big, all artists gathered. There was the life-theatre as lived by Kongo Dia Ntotela inhabitants. Malaki ma Kongo was the exhumed ancestral kermesse, on a dance step mode from now on national.
There was the pleasant theatre where people is invited backward to the stage, following a tradition dear to Kongo: spectators on stage, the comedians assist them, better: serve them.
One of the strongest images from the festival was that of the 1991 july 13th night, when Tshivili Tshibulu, Louya Mpene Malela and Masengo Ma Mbongolo, the festival three founders, met to light the Malaki ma Kongo camp fire up.
Already, sparks rose to the sky, to go across the ocean to reveal the upcoming Rebirth of the Pharaons and of an Africa that would have gotten its independancy in the 2001 year.
