to Reactivate the Ethics and the Development of our villages, our kingdoms…
Foreword
The cultural meeting that we propose is aimed at all the children of the leopard. All these peoples whose nights are stalked by the leopard, and who ended up domesticating to populate Kue-Ngo, or Kongo (in the land of the leopard). These are the peoples, whom Armand Zanzala calls children of the leopard, the Kungwe or Kongoué, Mbongo, Mbongoué among the Mbongo or Mbenga (pygmies); Angwe or Angoué, Édingwe among the Ngala; Mengo, Mongo, Kuengo and Ongoué or Ongwe, among the Téké; Nzongo, Kongo and Ngongo among the Nsundi; and Ngoma, between the Loango and the Kota; all those human communities in the heart of Africa.
Malaki Ma Kongo of the children of the leopard.
Within the framework of the Decade of African Descent People, Malaki ma Kongo Association for the Promotion of African Cultural Roots invites the worthy children of the heart of Africa, the authorities of Culture, kings, scholars, Afro-descendants, to participate in the Malaki Ma Kongo des fils du leopard that will take place on October 28 and 29, 2023 in Paris, France.
What is Malaki ma Kongo?
It’s the revival of the culture of a true Africa, created in 1991 in the Rep. of Congo Brazzaville. The Malaki ma Kongo cultural association was born as a continuation and development of the Malaki ma Kongo festival, which promotes the roots of black African culture in general and the heart of Africa in particular. The festival is celebrated annually: today it takes place on three continents.
Although inspired by the Kongo culture, which is promoted, the festival is open to other world cultures… The first and last shows always take place outdoors, around a large wood fire. Malaki is a ready-to-wear festival capable of moving not only from one country to another, but also from one continent to another.
Outside the Congo, Malaki has branches in Congo Kinshasa, Angola, Benin, Italy, France, Spain, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Haiti in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, USA and Canada.
The backdrop of Malaki ma Kongo is the renaissance of the culture of a true Africa that is expressed in these terms:
• research on the origins of African cultural identity and its diaspora
• revealing the various ills that undermine Africa
• thinking of how to approach solutions
The Malaki ma Kongo of the children of the Leopard. In this case the word Kongo or Koongo no longer designates an ethnic group or tribe, since it is only a deformation of the words Kuengo, Kongo, Kango and Ku ngo which mean « of the leopard » and indicate both a territory and all the peoples that live there. And it is through their fight against the leopards, the addition of a prefix or a suffix to the root ngwe, ngoué or ngo, the use of the leopard’s name and the insignia made with the bones, the skin, the fangs and the claws, of this fearsome and legendary animal, the tales and stories about the encounter of his ancestors with the leopard, which all prove his identity and his belonging to the great Kungo, Kuengo, Kongo, Kongwe and Kango tribe. Vast territory stretching from present-day Angola and extending to Gabon, passing through the two Congos, was once dominated by leopards and leopards whose names in almost all Congolese languages carry the root Ngo or Ngwe.
SOS Haïti (Malaki sur la route du village Makoongo, Belfontaine)
Interest :
Safeguarding our ancestral heritage through mental decolonization to reactivate our kingdoms, our ethics, for responsible development;
Objective:
- Create in the heart of Africa a platform for Africa-Afro descendants exchanges based on an African paradigm;
- Encourage governments to involve kings, sages of Africa and Afro-descendants in endogenous and responsible development actions;
- “Telling our grandsons’ grandsons what our parents’ parents have been through” Zunga Mvoala 1949;
- Transcending slavery, colonization and the logic of the Berlin Conference; to promote the ethics of the peoples of the heart of Africa, peace and responsible development;
- Avoid wars by seeking to wash the dirty linen in the family, under the background of reconnection and reconciliation through confession and Absolution;
- Promote transatlantic Afro-root tourism;
- Promote African cultural centers for a rebalancing of identity;
- Plan the return of Afro-descendants to Africa in peace, brotherhood, dignity, equity, so that the shock of returning to Africa is controlled;
- Promote responsible tourism that would meet the real needs of the Black world;
- Promote the history, ethics, identity and culture of the Black world, according to the African paradigm, to heal the psycho-traumatic impact of Caribbean peoples after slavery;
- Encourage governments to stimulate the creation of social enterprises which will constitute the backbone of a new Afro-global society, which is socially united and economically strong;
- Popularize the African Ethical Bank to bankarize African projects that are outside the traditional banking circuit;
- Participate in the creation of an experimental Kingdom: Kingdom Nsundi.
Kingdom Nsundi
Les Kongo, au 1er Congrès des Kongo à Paris.
A great challenge opens before us and together we will appreciate to what level, our kings, our wise men from Africa and Afro-descendants, are capable of facing this challenge. We are all aware that nature rebels against us, due to our mistreatment of the environment and humans.
Therefore, we pray to our kings and sages to draw closer to each other, to bring back the harmonious life between man and nature on earth. And who could do it better than the descendants of the pharaohs?
Chef Kongo, Gabriel Kinsa lors du 1er Congrès des Kongo à Paris.
REGISTRATION:
NB: The official list of participants, opened on February 22, will be closed on July 22, 2023.
Requests for participation will be addressed to the General Coordinator of Malaki ma Kongo
President of the International Organizing Committee of Malaki ma Kongo des Fils du Leopard at the following email address: info@ malakimakongo.net
NB. For the Godfather or Godmother, the honor will go to the first who decides, as provided for in our rules of procedure.
Masengo ma Mbongolo, Cedon Fritzner, Ludy C., Consul d’Haiti en Ecuador
GENERAL PROGRAM
October 28, 2023
Expo: Representation of Ngo – The leopard.
10:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony
– Word from the Prince of N’Sundi Masengo ma Mbongolo
– Act of Opening of the Godfather or the Godmother
– Message from the Kings, Elders of Africa and Afro descendants 5 minutes each (10 messages).
–The message of the Ngo by the poets / griots;
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch
Conference :
3:00 p.m. – Survivals of African cultural roots from -220 BC to the present day.
4:00 p.m.– A/ “Truth and reconciliation between Africa and its Diaspora… *Which Afro Descendant in the 21st Century?”
B/ The psychotraumatic impact linked to the non-respect of ancestral pacts on
Caribbean peoples and the world during and after slavery
5:00 p.m. – N’Sundi lands: from province to kingdom, via Village Lemba dia Malaki ma Kongo (museum)
Movie
6:00 p.m. – The Meeting of the Century between the Musundi of Cuba and the Musundi of Kongo.
7:00 p.m. – The Kongo of Cameroon: The Bassa
8:00 p.m. Gala dinner
9:30 p.m. Afro Music Evening End of the evening
October 29, 2023
Conference:
10:00 a.m. – Plan and orient the return of Afro descendants to master the shock of return;
11:00 a.m. – Promote responsible tourism that would meet the real needs of the Black world;
12:30 p.m. – Lunch
3:00 p.m. – Stimulating a movement of social enterprises to create a new Afro-global society, which is socially inclusive and economic;
4:00 p.m. – The African Ethical Bank whose goal is to bankarize the projects of Africans, who are outside the traditional banking circuit.
5:00 p.m. – Arts, dances, African drumming workshops.
6:00 p.m. – Harmonize an itinerant biennial Malaki ma Ngo co-organized with the Kings, the Elders of Africa and Afro Descendants & Creation of an Africa-Afro Descendants exchange platform, based on an African paradigm;
7:00 p.m. – TSHIKUMUSU: Animation with initiation dances.
Organizer: Malaki ma Kongo
The backdrop of Malaki ma Kongo is the Renaissance of the culture of a true Africa which is expressed in these terms:
- research into the origins of African cultural identity and its diaspora
- Reveal the various evils they undermine Africa
- reflect on approaches to solutions
Partners:
– Ministry of Culture of the following heart countries of Africa: Gabon, Cameroon, Angola, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, DR Congo
– All the kingdoms and great chiefdoms of the said countries
– Great personalities of the Diaspora from the heart of Africa
NB: The Ministers are responsible for the delegation of their country
Attendees 130:
– 7 Ministers of Culture + 7 secretaries = 14 pers.
– 10 kings and great chiefs of the said countries = 70 pers.
– The countries of the Afro descendant Diaspora respect the same standards as the countries of the heart of Africa. The countries (Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Urugay, Santo Domingo, Venezuela, Usa, Canada, Mexico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Jamaica…
Poets: 2/ country
