Welcome to the Ota Benga Alliance!
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Welcome! We are the Ota Benga Alliance for Peace, Healing and Dignity in the D.R. Congo and the U.S.A., located in Berkeley, California and Kinshasa, D.R. Congo.
Who was Ota Benga? A Congolese man, brought to the United States to be exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. He was an Mbuti (a pygmy), about 4 feet 8 inches tall, put on display at the Fair’s Hall of Man along with an exotic collection of indigenous peoples from all over the world. Ota Benga was exhibited next to a group of Native Americans that included Geronimo.
In honoring Ota Benga, we focus our efforts on the need to treat each other with dignity, with respect for cultural diversity as a source of strength, and with truth as a foundation for genuine reconciliation to end the cycles of violence, vengeance, and militarism. We believe that peace and dignity cannot be achieved while the injustices of the past and present are buried in silence, and while the struggles of the present go unheard.
Who are the Ota Bengas of today? Individuals and communities under siege all over the planet who are treated as less than human by a system built on greed, profit and violence: read more »
Wamba dia Wamba Is Assassination Target
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 15:01 |For Immediate Release: May 5, 2008
Berkeley, Ca.—Within the context of an elusive peace in the eastern part of the D R Congo and an ongoing assault by the government against the fundamental rights of the people of the Lower Congo Region, it has come to our attention that Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba and the Honorable Deputy Kiakwama have been targeted for assassination. read more »
Campaign Says 'No' to the Sexual Violence that Rages in DRC
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 16:38 |Reposted from United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) News Features April 4, 2008.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo
— In mid-March hundreds of Congolese women, men and girls raised banners that read, Together, let us say No to the silence, for the dignity of the Congolese and Enough sexual violence!. read more »
Protecting the Women of Congo
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 01:06 |Reposted from The Nation on-line, April 16, 2008.
Stephen Lewis' central argument is that the United Nations and, more specifically, the Secretary General should stake his tenure by coming out against sexual violence in the DRC. read more »
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