Seventh edition
MALAKI MA KONGO finally in Kinshasa
Malaki Educational - Congo
Planned to be held from 1997 july 3rd to 6th in Brazzaville, the 7th MALAKI MA KONGO edition could not be held because of some social political militar turbulences. But since Chance knows well its matters, Kinshasa – Brazzaville twin sister – agreed to welcome Malaki from 1997 december 20th to 1998 january 4th.
The seventh edition suddenly gave Malaki and the world’s two nearest capital cities’artists incredible chances to work together in that time of crisis.
This chance allowed also Patrice Lumumba’s and Franklin Bukaka’s dream – of transforming Congo river into a boulevard and not into an obstacle or fronteer – to be confirmed and actualized. Such dream had costed the two above mentioned great men their lives.
This seventh edition message was an accent put on the thousand year old predictions that left from ancient Egypt to the true Promised Land of Kongo Dia Ntotela.
Since the mists of time Kongo people wait for the star signal, as a Kongo prophecy says: Kongo Kingdom’s head looks like Kongo dia Mfoa (Brazzaville) and the day this Kongo dia Mfoa fiery’s head will wake up, the whole kingdom will raise up.
Malaki asked a series of questions to be thought over to the participants, to know:
- Didn’t the granades rain falling onto Brazzaville desturb this kingdom head’s rest?
- And if this is the case, what will happen?
- Didn’t Simon Kimbangu say to observe Mfoa Brazzaville’s coast because from there marveils will come?
- And uo to Andrè Matsua to add: Ndombi ku ndombi sadidi mukanda, comanda diandi Masuandre, which can be translated in the sense that a project or an action cannot be fruitful to Black man when they are not his own invention’s emanation, but above all when they aren’t made under his control.
The Congo’s wisemen – from Congo, Angola and Congo Kinshasa – who gathered in Kinshasa for three weeks, knew that those moments were weighty and the conference-debats themes well reflected such depth:
Mbuila battle and Kongo kingdom fdecline were brilliantly exposed by professor Ne Mabiala, who concluded his lecture in these terms: “Those who do not take into consideration either the origin either the consequences of the war that opposed Kongo to Portugal in 1665, will never comprehend what undermine the Kongo lands’ socio-political evolution.”
The second conference was entitled: from Simon Kimbangu to André Grenard Matsua, Ne Kongoes’ Cross path by Ne Kitoko Difukidi Kanda and Ne Masengo ma Mbongolo.
The artistiche performances were very beautiful, not to talk about the nice and valorous Bundu Dia Kongo (kongo church) choir; Tuma Haut’s musical comedy; the kongo griot Ne Nkamu with his “Letter to the African Presidents”, and the Marabout théâtre with the Brazza-Kinshasa Via Paris theatre piece by Nzey Van Musala and Masengo Ma Mbongolo. Finally Africa’s mourning by Don Dieg Nan Nkaka with Rocado Mayas théâtre . But the discovery came from the Kongo Medicin Academy with Outhimpaku du Nganga (doctor) Kumbu, proved that Kongo possesses a medicine that has nothing to envy to the Oriental or Occidental medicines. For example, deseases as appendicitis have no secrets for it, the same for cancer, liver cirrosis, tooth pain… Kongo medicine possesses also remedies for the Invisible, like for taking one away from the passion for cigarettes , stealing, adultery, terrorism, witchery, etc…
For discovering so much perspicacity, MALAKI asks the world only one thing:
A second of freedom, of independence
to save the world from all its evils.
