2002 Haiti

CLOSING of MALAKI MA KONGO “Special Bridge over the Atlantic Ocean”, or

Malaki ma Kongo in the feud of Haitian voodoo

Masengo ma Mbongolo - Haiti 2002

Masengo ma Mbongolo - Haiti 2002

The closing of this edition of the festival “special Bridge over the Atlantic Ocean” was well held in Port Prince in Haiti, in place of Capesterre Belle-Eau in Guadeloupe, as it had been initially programmed. This last minute change caused some trouble… but finally Port au Prince, the capital city of the first Black Independent Republic of the world, confirmed the logic for which:

 

Haïti is the floating concentration of an Africa searching for freedom and development.

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Within two weeks of reorientation, the closure of MALAKI MA KONGO made in America-Haiti now ticked off the list of events Malaki landmark in the history of cultural and artistic African-American; purifying in this way, the river of lies that, for over five centuries, flows from America to Africa and vice versa. The festivities of the 11th edition of Special MALAKI MA KONGO Bridge over the Atlantic, started in May in Italy Nove di Bassano, continued in September and then in Congo – Kinshasa Congo – Brazzaville in October before making a large Bridging the Atlantic to close its operations in the city of liberty made in Toussaint Louverture in Port au Prince, Haiti. The festivities were held under the patronage of the Cultural and Scientific Alliance ACSAH Africans of Haiti led by Mr. Bona Nlemba, under the direction of Prince Nsundi Do Masengo my Mbongolo. This oil sprayed fire-Malaki’s festivities made in America-Haiti took place in a manner and dramatic without shame, reached Nov. 9, 2002 a cruising speed that has exceeded the expectations of the organizers. The bridge over the Atlantic is now a reality Reality untouchable! Ten years after the Bridge over the Congo punctuated by the play Brazzaville-Kinshasa via Paris co-writing and Nzey Van Musala Masengo my Mbongolo, we return this November 9, 2002 with the play Bridge over the creation of an Atlantic Masengo my Mbongolo to close the festivities of the 11th Special MALAKI MA KONGO Bridge over the Atlantic, which started in May in Italy and continued in the Congo – Kinshasa in September and October in Congo – Brazzaville. The Malaki made in America-Haiti link forever the umbilical cord between African American, African, European and those of the original continent. May 12 to November 9, 2002 in these three continents we have communicated fully with our ancestors, we learned that the name of our continent, Africa is of Arab origin. Its root mean Kafrika Kafir or Arabic unclean, uncircumcised, pagan … The word Africa therefore means in Arabic: Earth-men without religion, Land of the Gentiles, the uncircumcised … Terre des hommes-unclean That’s why some North African brothers refuse the name of the African word and prefer that of Arabic because the word African in their culture is an insult. And we made the clarification that, until the eighth century, ie before the Holy War, the Black continent called KATIOPA (Ethiopia). In the literature of Egypt, Greece and even in the bible the word Africa is nonexistent. And we added the word means Katiopa center of the universe. Kikongo language we can divide the word into two: Kati center Mpa = = This gives us world-dia-kati kati + Mpa Mpa or abbreviated KATIOPA The center of the universe is the heart of Africa and the lands are called KONGO. Its capital is dia Kongo Ntotela “promised land” the one that actually exists, the rest is falsification of history … As the God of Love, Master of all powers can not give the humanity a promised land that is barren where all life is almost impossible … because the promised land is synonymous with milk, honey, fauna, flora … Kongo King said in English in German, Konig in Danish, Portuguese Kong, Koros in Japanese, it’s in French Kongo (c) Kouronne in other words the king and the king of kings not to speak of the Kongo Kongo is God himself We insist on the letter K because each letter has its internal dynamics and even those who play the card game know that the letter K stands for king. For this reason, all the wild beasts who met in Berlin from November 1884 to February 1885 to go after sharing the heart of humanity found that “the bone of the heart of humanity is hard Chewable “and that he first had to be diluted in the amputation of his K Royal to offend with a C that rhymes well with chair, cloth, shirt or Bullshit. The festivities of the closing of Malaki ma Kongo Special Bridge over the Atlantic took place this Saturday, November 9 at the amphitheater of the Star College in Port au Prince Haiti. As soon as 18 hours room five hundred seats is already half full of an audience where the club stands Malaki Haiti, a small group of ten friends managed by Haitian Berthine, Keurline, Jesula, Nansi all … … African dressed in loincloths, busy decorating the room colors and images of Malaki. Between the audience and the stage was the official table where we could see a bottle in the center ntsamba (palm wine) and the effigy of Maliki to his right with the photo of the late Violet’s mama Masembo Guadeloupe. In the background, behind the scene, a white banner, written in red and blue colors of Haiti, remembered forever for posterity that this day was held November 9, 2002 in Haiti, Malaki ma Kongo ” Special Bridge over the Atlantic”. While s’égrainent minutes, the son of Mr. Doudou Bob Nigeria and Congo Bona Nlemba finalize the systematization of the TV set that will project the video entitled “The Ten editions of Malaki ma Kongo ” MWANA TU NGO The DIA first places were occupied by men who did not want the Vodu missing eyes and no action makes this the Lord Malaki. The chairs are occupied by the middle of the average man of culture, artists, friends, curious … In the background we see a more or less compact semi-bourgeois with a large number of mulattos. Before the start of the evening, Dr. Claudia Batota Club Malaki whispers in my ear to the presence in the bottom of one of the largest families of Pan-Africanist intellectual and Port au Prince Family Larose and that man is on his right is right in Miami, Florida United States to attend the birth of America-Maliki made in Haiti, Mr. Dorsinvil. The age of the public between 15 and 75. The audience impatient to see a show organized entirely by Africans. Some can not believe their eyes as they did in Africa heard that nonsense. Eighteen to ten minutes a power cut reminds us that we are in a developing country, but it n’intrigue anyone except the person in charge of the room that is quick to turn on the electric generator College and three gongs to the show ring. Mr. Nlemba after a brief speech of presentation to the floor a little palm wine and gave the floor to the guest of the day. MWANA NGO TU DIA We will eat child of the Leopard “In our society, the leopard symbolizes the king and this phrase means that all costs we must find a solution to the problem that interferes with the peace or life in the village if no person leaves the meeting. ” Above all, I belong to the clan of Kahunga by my mother and am a prince of the clan Nsundi by my father, my Masengo is Mbongolo name. In our culture, before you speak, you must first decline lineage and clan name. I brought the cola, Nzo za Nungu (pimento of mind) and palm wine which we will pay first on the ground to honor our ancestors and the challenge that they guide our steps as we now the child will eat the Leopard MWANA NGO TU DIA. I would also like to thank the public for his number, this reflects the interest that attaches to Africa Haiti deep and eternal. -We are turning a generation and we have a duty to transmit to future generations the torch of universal truth. The world is sick because pride, lying, selfishness, greed took over the Tchimuntu (humanism). It is for this reason that when the 1st edition of Malaki ma Kongo in 1991, we vowed that: If Senghor and Césaire sought to reassert the value of African culture, We enjoyed sixty years later, should dig into the stem roots of African culture to draw the sap that will save not only mad cow but also cultures crazy. -But why should that each of our peoples, bring the little traditional knowledge held; to seal the holes in the jar for Peace and Development in Africa … In this sense, we who are remained in Africa will bring what we have, and you also have crossed the ocean that are holders of a share of secrets, this is the part that needs Katiopa to restore the image of the Black man and humanity whole. The audience is silent, meditative look as if saying, ‘Now we are waiting for centuries! Finally, we are there. In fact, it was felt that all those who came that night were prepared to take part in the theater but not in a reconciliation ceremony in which different family goes back five centuries. The silence grew heavier and his eyes became unbearable. Theatre Coscene After this introductory remarks the theater COSCENE of Port au Prince under the direction of Jean Joseph Ducamel … invited to open hostilities. A loud and the dozen actors shouted their rage: We live in the dark! They defended well and the message was about the quest for good living conditions for Haitians and Black people. But despite the strength of the text and the talent of artists, the public was anxious and eager to dish the past. Moreover, they quickly applauded as if to say … … Finally the show Bridge over the Atlantic, as expected, is complete and the public is unable to determine the kind of spectacle that they come to take part. It is not theater, storytelling, poetry, song, but it is at once … We call Bunzoni As the title says the show is a narrative that traces the path of Malaki its origins to Haiti. Masengo MA MBONGOLO all began in 1987 at the First African Theatre Festival in Italy which our old group Ngunga participated with several other African groups and the Italians were making fun of us because of the absence in Africa of meeting space artists where the jokes that push us to reflect on our human condition: “The shortest route between Brazzaville in Congo and Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, through Rome, Paris or New York. In 1988, Pan-African Festival of Lugano in Switzerland, a young South African Shifo me to demand to know: “If we have problems is because of apartheid, but you independent since 1960, what’s wrong with you? “. We spoke English and wanted to know what is undermining our self-development? I’m so ashamed that I did not know what to say to get rid of it, I said that apartheid was the monster that was glued to the whole of Africa and that when we eventually all of Africa would be released. So saying he went. These two sentences have never stopped torturing my mind so much that after returning to Congo, I decided not to participate in festivals that take place in Europe … If there were things to do to transform our existence, in Africa we should decode the mystery of where the establishment in 1990 of a theater group followed April 3, 1991 a festival which is a kind of link with our ancestors ,  styling Malaki ma Kongo Kermesse in other words of love, peace, royalty, divinity. -1993, While Brazzaville lived a climate of civil war and all the festival activities were suspended, friends came to say that Kinshasa: Malaki ma Kongo I was entering into communion with our ancestors and that nobody could we denied the right, not even Dad and how many times our Prime Minister. So despite the climate of war, the third edition was held on the outskirts of Brazzaville and 14, August 15, 1994 the populace was happy to be rocked not with cannon but by the rhythm of the tom Ngoma African-tam. -1994 Of the Caribbean in Guadeloupe came in search of their origins. They said be of Kongo but the map they showed us, covering all of Central Africa and lasted until Zimbabwe, Namibia. I then realized that our work was not limited only to research my roots, but we came back as a duty to help the blacks of America to find their bearings? -1996, Arrived friends club Cheick Anta Diop of Cameroon, which helped us to expand our knowledge of Africa. They taught us that the history of Africa that we learn in our schools is the tenth of the real history of the Black continent and that this view of history is made as to develop in us an inferiority complex and make us instruments of destroying our own environment, our villages, our names, our culture, our religion, to surrender completely to systems that extroverted yet forty years after independence can not give us a bit of sun. According to them the logic of Cheick Anta Diop is the only line of Ariane to help us out of this trap that keeps us here more than five centuries. -1998, It was planned a pilgrimage to dia Kongo Ntotela “promised land” unfortunately with the same period the whole region northwest of Angola was plagued by civil war -1999, nearly three quarters of the approximately 800,000 Brazzaville hab. (All categories) went into the forest because of the war. After three months people did not know where to turn. The intellectuals were the class of persons the most fragile. By their education and their lifestyle, they could not understand either the meaning of the war or how to behave. So we opened the Cultural Center Mbongui Malaki ma Kongo in crisis socio-political and military. The main objective of this center is to restore hope and faith in the lives of all who had lost everything and had become fugitives. The method used is to tell them about the history of war studies, history of the war, Kongo in space. The goal is to make them understand that it is not the first war in which the Kongo face. Of ancient Egypt until Kongo earth, our ancestors went through moments of joy but also sorrow. It’s not on their own as the Pharaohs and Pyramids abandoned their rich lands of Egypt to sell them, the invading peoples from the Middle East. People’s lives like any kind of life has three stages: birth, adulthood and eternity. After enabled humanity to move from the primitive age to the age of science, mathematics, philosophy, the Black continent has unfortunately been paid in funny money by foreign students in bad faith: Thales Pythagoras Socrates … … … This also has ownership without dowsing, a theorem created two thousand years before his birth. On the whole pseudo-history made in Europe, it was that shed the stigma of the Black continent, but nobody wanted to say exactly the quality of scientific and spiritual light that Katiopa continent (Africa) has really brought to humanity. -Hold! Let’s play a little. Do you know Jesus, I asked the public? There are Christians here I think. Who can tell us how many years did Jesus spent in Egypt? We at least agree that there broke the record status of political refugees by age. The first night of his birth he has made a political refugee. But nobody told us how much time it spent in Egypt. Tell me, if it should happen that you kill all children under three years living in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Jamaica … because of your son, and you leave with him to find refuge in Miami, Florida, America, how long you let pass before returning to Haiti with your son? Both my two years? Not-for ten years, said a voice in the back of the room. -Well Know this that in Egypt these days, when a child reached six years old, he went to school. It is for this reason that thirty years later when it rained is recognized master in his own people and, emphatically, he posed the question: What did the law if a woman commits adultery? The Bible says Jesus was sitting on the floor and drew … By this, I just wanted to remind you that at a certain age, a man, a master moreover do not sit on the floor to draw is Instead, to write and if that master as any great master of his time was initiated in the country of pyramids, hieroglyphics will be interpreted by outsiders as mere drawings. -That enough for you? or do you want me to talk about Moses, a name that means saved from the waters! Pharaoh adoptive father and initiator of Moses, or Musa in Arabic, has an adopted son named exactly MU MAZA, or MU N’ZA that in one of the African native means of water, from water or rescued from the water . The Pharaoh had to belong to the tribe sought refuge at the heart of Africa, which appoints the water Maza. This explains that Moses called Masa, where he was out of the water in the desert when his people were thirsty. You can check the writings in the Bible. The public gradually began to defuse. Like maggots in a decaying body. The audience stirs in his chair, proof that he is interested and challenged by what is said. And as unleashed by this introduction, I launched into the subject’s body. Here the fundamental problem is to say a / Whether or not Africans are cannibals? b / Have they sold their brothers wrists for some salt and remained feasting without any concern? This is the fundamental issue that divides the African American and their congeners remained in Africa. I read in the eyes of the public that this issue torture their minds for centuries, but by simple decency not to embarrass their host, as I am, they are reluctant to get flank face age-old question. Out of respect they prefer to wait until I open the famous Pandora’s box. So I had the opportunity to personally find m to explain about this. They are aware that the slave had told many lies to divide and rule and that in this batch of lies, there is certainly a big part of truth about the participation of some vindictive tribal leaders, but also very important to them, to know the African version of the facts. beginning of the page for a fight, I started by giving the origin of the tribes that inhabit Africa center. Like all black people, that of Africa from the center are from the North East of Africa in ancient Nubia, and several later they created a big city: Egypt. After the invasion of it by people from the Middle East, they dispersed to seek refuge inside the continent, each carrying a grain of truth in what the Egypt of the Pharaohs. And the system encourage the African Malaki anywhere to find the little wisdom Pharaonic they hold. Today I will talk briefly about the history of peoples who have come up the river Nile for refuge in the Mountains of the Moon and especially where I come from Kongo. In the year 220 J.C before they leave Egypt. Their first stop is Kenya where there are to date the remains of their passages, called Kongo Mosque. It is a place of meditation, worship that people still attend today. The second home where they found trace it to Zimbabwe in Mwene MUTANPA (Monomotapa) whose ruins remind us again how this period was glowing. Then they were divided into two branches, one is a party in the southern mountains, it is the Zulu and the other went around the Tchikala (Kalahari) to settle in the land now known as Kongo. They have created one of the most prestigious Black kingdoms of the world, like the descendants of the Pharaohs. The Portuguese who were seen in 1482, said, in terms of harmony in social relations: These men are civilized to the marrow of the bones … To achieve the degree of civilization, we would need at least three one hundred years. It took the little we have opened the doors of our homes so that they lay bare their bestiality. Not understanding the logic that: The day we take a night speech and the facts are contrary to the discourse of the day. The King sent in 1608 Do Vunda Ambassador to the Pope at the Vatican to defend the logic Kongo and whether they pray God really called the LORD or MONEY? Because we could not understand that men of God began to practice the slave trade! Do Vunda was part of the Kongo-class intellectuals. I must remind that in 1510 the capital Mbanza Kongo were already large secondary schools. The sister of King Nzinga Mbemba (Alfonso the first) was a teacher in a convent of girls, one of his brothers was a professor of Latin in Lisbon and another was consecrated Bishop in Rome the first Black in 1518. The Cathedral of Mbanza Kongo was beautiful and spacious and easily could hold two thousand faithful. In neighborhoods, houses of one to two levels were innumerable fingertips, that the King was level four. The army was highly structured and organized. Sensing the bad faith of his guests that he acknowledged the technological superiority, the king saw fit to accept their religion to appease their appetites. But the contradictions of interest increasing, October 29, 1665 was a great battle between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Kongo Kingdom in Mbuila that the king Vita Kanga (Antonio) was fundamentally opposed to slavery. Unfortunately for us, the technological superiority of the Portuguese was justified on the basis of humanist two hundred thousand armed men of Mani Kongo. The desolation was strong, almost five miles with a dead king who was beheaded Vita Kanga and his head is still in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Nazareth in Luanda, Angola. The best African capital Mbanza Kongo then flew up in smoke its peaceful inhabitants were enrolled in slavery. Generals, priests, witch doctors, intellectuals and even queens as Nzinga found themselves on the shores of Haiti, on the other sought refuge in the forests. Since the Kongo fight so far in the quest for freedom and dignity lost. At everything they say evil is good, too much concentrate Kongo army officers, all these intellectual, religious and others have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. History records that the Kongo weighed with all their weight in the changes that have occurred in the Caribbean, at the ceremony of Bois Caiman, songs and prayers were made in Kikongo language. The first Haitian Constitution of 1758 was written in language Kinkongo and the rebellion was led by Kongo, Ne Mavungu, Makaya Do, Do Makandal. Then addressing the audience: Who could do me the pleasure of singing a song, sung during the ceremony of Bois Caiman? This question seems to have reminded the audience that Africa is also an actor. Ah! You eyes widen! But that’s what the world expects of you, the share of wealth that you have carried for centuries. Eh! Some believed attend a play? Nope! In Africa, it is the show to participate and not to attend. I’m listening now … (Silence)-Like me, you know that Africa is sick and for healing everyone who is in possession of an African-dose, fuss does little need to contribute to getting Africa back on the road to peace and development. (Silence)-Well I’ll refresh your memory. Eee badidi nzobo did go mukanda NDIL Oua oua yayeeee nganga ago kaya na yaya Eee badidi nzobo mukanda NDIL go Oua oua yayeeee nganga is yaya kaya ba bue Eeee tele ngooo Oua oua yayeeee nganga is yaya kaya na ngoma Eee ntsikila Tsinan ngo Oua yayeeee nganga ago yaya kaya wa Malaki ma Kongo my stronghold in the Haitian Vodu (cont.) Another song! Nganga mabengele Eee Eee mpiema ueka kuna kuna ueka mabengele Nganga Nganga ueka mabengele mpiema Eee Eee mabengele Nganga mpiema kuna kuna ueka mpiema Finally, you may be in shock of emotion, but I would like to add one thing before closing, I just Kongo and that word is synonymous with peace, love, brotherhood, unity, fairness, loyalty, royalty, divinity. And a prophecy of the Bundu dia Kongo (Kongo Church) said: When the son of the world of darkness Will the son of God deviated from the path, the light that will rehabilitate the world come from dia Kongo Ntotela the time allotted by the Lord When Star of the promise will come the Kongo Central. When I finished the show, the audience seemed to be weighing Offensive issued which had already lasted for centuries. Before closing the event of a priestess Vodu Gielda Ms. Belmont, sixties sounded better, came up to say: Finally, I am delivered … We do not know our history. For years I searched in vain, all ground up in libraries in Miami, Florida … I’m American and you can not imagine how many people would be reborn as me today … You speak English … Uh-! I did not know what to say, as I was concerned about whether or not my message was … if Ben! she replied, you say a few words during the show. Either way you and your group are invited to the bicentennial of Haiti’s independence in 2004. Right now, I remembered the words of thanks by Professor Lerebour after I have ever facilitated the meeting with students at the Research Institute of African Studies in Haiti: ‘I think that since this University, this is the first time they receive a true African”

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