Ota Benga Alliance For Peace, Healing and Dignity

In the name of humanity, the desecration of all lives in Haiti must cease. In the name of our organization, the Ota Benga Alliance for Peace, Human Dignity, and Healing in the DR Congo and the USA, we call for an end to the never-ending suffering of the Haitian people.

The Haitian people are like the Hibakusha of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We are all victims/survivors, some without knowing, some very conscious, of a chain reaction which started exploding with more and more force around the Planet since 1492.  read more »

The battle for fidelity to humanity/dignity

Thanks to the work of John Thornton (The Kongolese St. Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706. Cambridge University Press, 1998), the reading public has access to a history of connection between the Kongo Kingdom and Saint Domingue.

The Story of Kimpa Vita (Dona Beatriz)  read more »

Pambazuka News 296
March 22, 2007

Jacques Depelchin

Jacques Depelchin challenges global citizens to make links between poverty across the world both historically and in the present day: From Cite Soleil in Haiti; to Abalhali in Durban, South Africa; Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenya; Maroko in Lagos, Nigeria; and Ndjili in Kinshasa, DRC.  read more »