«The essential for a people is not much being able to glorify itself by a past more or less majestic, but it is more about discovering and taking consciousness of this past's continuity, whatever this past was."
Cheikh Anta Diop
Dirty cloths are to be washed within the family, they say. That's why Malaki ma Kongo, association for the promotion of African cultural roots in service of Responsible Development, invites all Africans from east and west of the Atlantic Ocean to go back to their ancestors' steps. We'll walk throughout the close yet faraway time of enslavery, to cover Africa from Goreè Island just to the black continent's heart.We'll go through many villages where monuments, valleys, mountains, roots, leaves, trees and - why not -the wind will refresh our memory. It may happen that, while we sleep, during a dream a fly, or a beetle, or a fish, or - why not - an elephant will sing us songs that we kind of remember.Yes, we'll walk to touch reality by hand and to give ourself a personal judgement about what really happened more than 500 years ago.AIM : to preserve collective memory OBJECTIVES : 1- Creating a dialogue space for the Reconciliation of African people from East and west of the Atlantic Ocean;2- Promoting African Cultural roots3- Re-writing our history4- Entering in Communion with our ancestors by participating at the Tricontinental Festival Malaki ma Kongo. CIRCUIT of the VOYAGE a/ Gorée Island and Dakar city in Sénégal ; b/ Bénin: we'll touch by hand an unusual expérience of retourning to Africa realised 10 years ago by the JAH family, who went there from Guadeloupe. Visit to the Temple of Pythons in Ouidah and organization of a forum about: «The importance of the Exchanges between African people from East and west of the Atlantic Ocean» ;c/ In Ghana we'll visit the Slaves Road, the city of Accra, some exemples of investments by Black diaspora, following a show-dinner for solidarity with « The initiatives of the exchanges between African people from East and west of the Atlantic Ocean» ; d/ The two Congoes, in Brazzaville and in Kinshasa we'll participate at the Tricontinental Festival MALAKI ma KONGO, and we'll visit the two capital cities.Iin Pointe Noirewe'll visit the Monument of Memory and the humanitarian action of MALAKI DEVELOPMENT (Centre of sewing education for young women and the Pilote Agricole Center); e/ In Nzinzi (Pointe Noire) we're waited to close in beauty the Tricontinental Festival MALAKI ma KONGOand « tell our children' children what our fathers' fathers lived». ORGANISATORS : Malaki ma Kongo in collaboration with local social organisations from East and west of the Atlantic Ocean, they invite us to go to Africa not to sympathise with lions, gyraffes or crocodiles but to fraternize with human beings.MALAKI MA KONGO is one of the rare cultural African meetings (in the modern sense of the term) which is made in Congo by the funds and sweat of artists and men of culture. THese ones are willing of preserving their freedom and independence of expression in all cultural and artistic work. Malaki ma Kongo organization and especially its orientation try to preserve African cultural logic from external influences or inspirations. Malaki ma Kongo is unpublished spectacles inspired by the rich territory tradition; living, eating, drinking and speaking as in the good culturally virgin time before the Portugueses; re-living the past enjoying Ngoma ya Kongo, the party drum which used to accompany night fields of crickets fanfare to excite the night dances of engoulevents birds.Malaki ma Kongo, is the return to the origins through the magic of theatre: camp fires, drums choir, rattle bells, ... We'll live all that savoring biyoki, cane and ananas beer, mbulu and samba, kola, pepper in grains, and - why not - mundiondio.Malaki ma kongo is a festival « prêt â porter », able to wander not only from country to country but also from continent to continent. Since 2002 Malaki ma Kongo is celebrated in 3 continents: Africa in the two Congoes, Europe in Italy and France, America in Haiti, Guadaloupe, Dominican Republic, Guyana.BENEFITS : Preserving collective memoryRe-writing Africa true history and knowing the true meaning of words like Africa, Sénégal, Congo, Namibie, Zimbabwe, Mali, Cameroun, Guinée…MODALITY OF VOYAGE : Responsible Tourism: We won't stay in big hotels, we'll stay by local people houses or by rooms we'll rent from local families' houses (all people that are Malaki ma Kongo members), or local small hotels held by local families .Transportation will be, depending on circumstances: local city bus, trains, taxi, cars rented on place, airplanes etc.
Contact :+39 349 33 29 339 / 347 9185095info@malakimakongo.netwww.malakimakongo.net
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