Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba never showed up. I learned from Carole, our Swahili tutor, that his aspirations for the scheduled presidential election in 2005 are compromised by the fact that many in the population believe that he has eaten the flesh of a pygmy for medicinal purposes. Certainly it costs him the pygmy vote.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Shooting a documentary in Goma, Congo, and what happened after that.
Resources/Blogs
- louisabelman[[AT]]fastmail.fm
- The Goma Film Project
- HEAL Africa (formerly DOCS)
- Congo fact page
- U.N. Mission in Congo
- Amnesty International: Congo-DRC
- Human Rights Watch: Congo-DRC
- Google News: Congo
- The Pole Institute
- AllAfrica: Congo-Kinshasa
- My article in the IHT
- My article in CampusProgress
- The Malau
- The exiled Afrikan
- Congo Watch
- Black Looks by an African Fem
- Jewels in the Jungle
- Comprehensive: Pole on gender-based violence in North Kivu
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