Mosquito Power in DRC
Dec 28, 2020
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I think the world is tired to hear from me. Sometimes it feels as though Patriarchy is going to swallow us up. New bonfires are being lit everyday. Women from every tribe are coming together and speaking peace, speaking unity, speaking oneness, but those of the Patriarchal mind continue to shout their nonsense through megaphones of discord and dissonance.
Obviously we don’t have an intelligent, responsive government. There are many authorities rather than one; many even with their own militias to enforce their own agendas.
I’m not a Noble Prize winner, just a simple woman. But a couple weeks ago, someone who is a Nobel Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, spoke out against my community of people and blamed all the killing in our province since 1996 on my people. Now the population in my province is organizing a march to support Dr. Mukwege. The population is happy to finally have an enemy named that they can blame for all the trouble over the last 24 years. Now this small community of people, my community, will suffer the ire of all the other tribes of Congolese people. The population have been stirred now against my community. They are putting them in prison for no reason other than the fact that they are Banyamulenge and therefore, killers.
This is pure Patriarchy. Dominion thinking. Us versus them. Is this action going to bring electricity, or running water, or roads, or an economy with jobs, let alone peace? Those of the Patriarchal mind only continue to build fires of chaos in the midst of the Congolese people rather than trying to build a future for all Congolese as One people. This is senseless. We don’t need to make enemies out of one another. That will not bring healing. Healing comes from forgiveness, not assigning blame and castigating one another as “other”, as enemy. Please, let us leave the colonizing mind behind. Let’s all take responsibility to create a future for one another.