Llanto Brujo

14 Aug, 2011 | Cuba news

Cuba’s musundis memory recuperation.

aldo durades

aldo durades

(In Spanish)

El texto que sigue, lo escribí a manera de presentación del libro Llanto brujo, publicado en México dos meses después de haberlo escrito en Santiago de Cuba bajo la urgencia dictada por el Tatandi de los Musundi, Aldo Durades Román. Hace apenas una semana, mi participación en el II Festival Cultural con los pueblos de Africa, organizado por el ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Venezuela, una feliz coincidencia me ha puesto en contacto en Caracas con angolanos radicados en Cabinda, Angola, donde tuve el privilegio de estar hace exactamente ya veinte años, experiencia compartida con los hermanos joel James y Rogelio Meneses, hace poco fallecidos, con quienes realizaba estudios acerca de las religiones de base africana en Santiago de Cuba y más particularmente con la de ascendencia bantú.

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Malaki ma Kongo Martinique

14 Aug, 2011 | Martinique news

Honor to the Kongo people from the west of the Atlantic Ocean who search their origins.

NTUMUA MASSEE is one of them.

He’s very curious, he searches for the fossils of truth. He unmasks those ones who falsify our ancestral memory. He gives tribute to  CHEIKH ANTA DIOP, he honors our ancestors, he rehabilitates the wisdom of Kongo, he searches into Kongo spirituality, by the BUNDU DIA KONGO.

http://mbutamassee.afrikblog.com

Nsaku Ne Vunda

14 Aug, 2011 |
Ne Vunda

Ne Vunda

400 years ago, the first black ambassador sent to the Vatican died in Rome: he came from the Kingdom of Kongo. If you go to Rome, you must absolutely plan to go visit the Basilica of St. Mary Major (Santa Maria Maggiore). And ask to visit the grave and the statue of Nigrita. It’s a fellow! The story is little known and yet it deserves to be in the textbooks of the black continent, let alone our country.

His name was Manuel Antonio Nsaku ne Vunda, he came from the Kingdom of Kongo to represent Mani Kongo (the King) to the Pope. Continue reading →

Mama Kimpa Mvita

14 Aug, 2011 |

Realization of the first decade of Mama Kimpa Mvita 2007-2017

mama Kimpa Mvita

mama Kimpa Mvita

In occasion of the 300 years from the murder of Mama Kimpa Mvita, the General Coordination of Malaki ma Kongo –  association for the promotion of African cultural roots –  decided to launch the first decade of Mama Kimpa Mvita 2007-2017, a cultural program in service of Responsible development in Congo.

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Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà

14 Aug, 2011 |
Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza

Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza

Pietro Brazza Savorgnan was born in Castelgandolfo, near Rome, in an aristocratic Roman family, on january 26th 1852. After studying in Paris, he enrolled in the French Navywith the admiral Montaignac recommandation. Poorly noticed and subjected to hostility from other naval officers, Continue reading →