DRC: « Africa and the global neoliberal order », the new book co-authored by Freddy Mulumba and Kä Mana

The African literary world has just discovered a new book entitled « Africa and the Planetary Neoliberal Order ». Co-written by Freddy Mulumba, political scientist, journalist and Deputy Director General of Congolese National Radio Television (Rtnc) and Kä Mana, philosopher, university professor and research director at the Intercultural Institute in the Great Lakes Region (Pole Institute) This 320-page book is a diagnosis at the bedside of a diseased Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Africa.

The official presentation and opening of the book took place on Friday, August 2 in Kinshasa. The Naomie room of Béatrice Hôtel, located in the municipality of Gombe served as a framework for the organization of this double ceremony. Many personalities from the scientific world took part.

In this collective work, the authors pose landmarks to think and live a new citizenship and give it substance and meaning. This, after finding that the neocolonialism that faces the African people.

Faced with the political deadlock that is blocking our country, the DRC, faced with the collapse of the economic structures of the nation, facing the material and moral ruin of our people and the accustomed social chaos and culture of despair that the Congolese risk internalizing and living permanently, the authors propose perspectives and orientations to promote a new citizen spirit in the Congolese economic, political and cultural imagination.

In writing this book, the authors intend to deposit a seed of ambition with a creative force. The book constitutes an interpellation for the youth as well as for the political class of the DRC as well as that of Africa.
In his address of circumstance, Freddy Mulumba indicated that the publication of this book is not a fact of chance but rather because there are things which astonish.

As an African, he thinks, we have a duty to look back to better decide the future.

« For 16 centuries, we have always been dominated. What’s wrong ? Why do we have to undergo such treatment? He asked himself. And to add: « if we do not become aware by freeing us from neocolonialism, we will always remain slaves« .

For his part, Kä Mana urged the Congolese people to ban the paradigm of defeat and become optimistic. According to him, the new type of Congolese must redo the revolution of values.

The first part of the book is divided into three parts and deals with issues related to understanding the current global context and its implications for African countries. The second part, she talks about Africa between globalization and alternative globalization. The third part deals with the problem of the time of new Congolese in a responsible country.

Olivier KAMO