When you first see an Okapi your initial immediate thought is that someone left the barn door open and a horse met a zebra. Yet, the strange looking animal actually is more closely related to the giraffe than it is the zebra! With somewhat long necks and massive tongues, they are a breed unto their ...

Inside a Congolese Displaced Persons Camp - photo by Georgianne Nienaber Nkunda’s Pilgrimage of Reconciliation The YouTube video is amateurish and grainy, but the images are irrefutable testimony. The date is August 6, 2006 in the tiny village of Nyamitabo in eastern Congo—a region where warfare...

You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars between enemy tribes take an almost unbelievable human toll. The photos in this pictorial show what a truly miserabl...

Today we celebrate Nathaniel Selfs birthday!! He is throwing a b-day bash in London tonight with a solid lineup! Congratulation homie! Sorry, I can’t be there today. Zombie Disco Squad and Solo did this banging mix to celebrate their new release on Dirty Bird. The EP is called “Congo Fir...

Slumdog Entrepreneur by Sam Daley-Harris, Founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign When my wife and I slipped into our theater seats to watch Slumdog Millionaire, we braced ourselves for a journey into urban slums, a world inhabited by over one billion people globally. But unlike the movie-goers i...

-Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 has gone hip on us! In a public appearance, she officially unveiled her new web site . Actually it is a site for the royal family of England and has links to you tube, virtual tours and if the Royals are coming to your neck of the woods. I had a great deal of fun on it...

A month ago this fallen rebel seemed untouchable. Early in the morning on January 23rd, Rwandan forces surrounded and arrested former rebel leader Laurent Nkunda as he was fleeing an attack on his base in Bunagana, Congo, into Rwanda. Formerly the leader of the CNDP, a Tutsi-dominated rebel group, N...

I am sure you have things that are collecting dust, rusting, or just plain useless.  We all complain about customer service even here in the United States.  We are not satisfied with many of the products we spent our hard earned money.  Customer service includes installation, training, operation...

Since the beginning of this blog, I have written hard and often about the genocide taking place in the Congo. Rarely did I have good news to share with you about the horrors including five million dead, massive rape, huge displacements of entire cities and children forced into different rebel forces...

Another plague has stroke Africa.  This time, it is the global economic crisis. In a country like Congo with almost no other industry, a collapse in the mining industry will mean economic disaster in normally prosperous areas.  Also, it is coming at a time when the government is finally trying to...