Genocide in the Congo (Zaire)

About the Book

Genocide in the Congo/Zaire exposes incredible and horrific atrocities taking place in the heart of Africa, in the Congo/Zaire, a country that is as big as all of Western Europe or the United States East of the Mississippi River. The World, though, is silent over 1.7 million deaths, a number larger that the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Why the silence? How come the American mainstream media has not raised hell or demanded action? Is this a repeat of the 1960’s when the American Government and its CIA engaged in covert operations to kill foreign heads of states and destabilize foreign governments that they did not like? What is happening in the Congo comes close to that. The 1.7 million Congolese have died with the financial, military and political blessings and help of the US Government, Western Europe (The Paris Club), and the mining Conglomerates. Who own the media outlets? Who finance the politicians’ campaigns? This book exposes, both in words and pictures, the genocide and humanitarian misery being directed by President Clinton, Europe and the companies that are enriching themselves over Congo’s mineral wealth. Because President Kabila of the Congo wants a fair deal for the wealth of his country, Clinton and the West don’t like him. So he must be removed, like it was done to Patrice Lumumba in the 60’s. In this process, already 1.7 million Congolese have died. Would genocide, rape, and mutilations of the Congolese be President Clinton’s Congo Legacy?

About the Author

Professor Yaa-Lengi Ngemi (Malcolm-King College, The College of New Rochelle) is a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ex-Zaire) in Central Africa. He is the Official Translator, from French into English, of Cheikh Anta Diop’s much heralded book, Civilization or Barbarism and the author of The Study Guide to Civilization or Barbarism. Professor Ngemi just completed his book on the Congo titled, Hell in Paradise (which documents the genocide, mutilations, slavery, and rape in the Congo, 1884-1960).

A multi-dimensional scholar, Professor Ngemi has lectured at colleges, universities (both in Africa and in the US), community forums, and other venues including Queens College, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutgers University, Temple University, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Queens Borough Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, New York City Public Library Harlem Branch, ATT-BeIl Laboratories, The African-American Museum of Hempstead, L.I., The United Nations,…He has also been a guest on Cable and Public television shows (i.e., The Tony Brown Journal, The Melanin Chronicles…) and radio programs.

Professor Ngemi holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in business administration, history, education, and the sciences from The Salvation Army College in Kinshasa, Congo, from Louisiana State University and Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and from Columbia University in New York, New York. He has taught the sciences (Biology, Environmental Science and Chemistry), Math, and African History on the college level, and Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math, French and English on the junior high and high school levels.

Prof. Ngemi is the Director of Research of the New York-based African Research and Educational Institute, Inc., a not-for-profit institution. While teaching at the College of New Rochelle and translating Diop’s book in The Black Studies Department of the City College (City University of New York), he developed a six-credit course on the African Contribution to Humanity in the Sciences, The Humanities, and the Arts, based on Civilization or Barbarism and other sources. He, later, simplified this course and has been teaching it at the community level as a twenty-two hour course titled “Africa-World 2001: Initiation Into Original Knowledge,” using Civilization or Barbarism and other sources. [Due to numerous demands from all over the United States after his appearance on The Tony Brown Journal, Professor Ngemi has been con-ducting intensive, 3-day week-end study of this book in the different regions of the U.S.] The author can be reached at theafricanre-search.ei@netzero.net or yaalengimn@aol.com; or write to P.O. Box 7309, New York, NY 10116 (USA).