🇨🇩 Back to Kinshasa: The fight for democracy in the DRC | Witness

Thirty-one-year-old Ben is one of the leaders of a civil society movement campaigning for democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In a country where the president, Joseph Kabila, has sought to cling to power by any means necessary, exceeding the term limits stipulated by the constitution and violently repressing any hint of popular protest, his is a dangerous position to be in.
So when Ben discovers that he is wanted by his country’s national security services, he heads to the US, where he seeks asylum. But when his visa is rejected, he must return to the DRC. There, he is reunited with his friends and fellow leaders of the civil society movement - Christian and Jean-Marie, who was until recently languishing in a government prison.
Together, they must decide how to oppose a president who refuses to relinquish power. Will they join forces with the traditional opposition party? Is it too late for dialogue? Should they resign themselves to a popular uprising and the risk of a blood bath?
Back to Kinshasa follows the three activists as they brave the possibility of bullets, prison and exile in their fight for the future of their country.
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[@zachward2564]

great documentary, thanks

[@aljazeeraenglish]

Thanks

[@atulr.8900]

What is that song at the very end of the program .... beautiful!

[@florencem3397]

Fungola mboka by Flamme Kapaya

[@tlk0216]

if life started in Africa, how come they dont have advanced society or humanity?

[@tlk0216]

@Berend Emanuel the Caucasian race gave us Herodotus, Archimedes,Socrates, Plato, Dante, Galileo, Columbus, Erikson, Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, tesla, alexander the great, Marco polo, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Kepler, Hubble, Brahe, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Grieg, Vivaldi, van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso, Monet, Von Braun, Einstein, Charles Goodyear, Alfred Nobel, Johannes Guttenberg, George Eastman, James Watt, Louis Braille, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, the jet airplane, rockets, the car, space exploration, the train, the submarine, penicillin, cures for diseases, medical technology, the phone(alexander graham bell) the TV etc. etc. etc. Just to name a few, out of the many thousands, And what have the blacks invented or the south Americans???????

[@flimcomedy7667]

lol I love being African my god. Not looking for not long agruement.

[@tlk0216]

@@flimcomedy7667 You do have to admit the caucasion invented the most of all the things in the world, not africans

[@tlk0216]

@Michael O'Hehir the caucasion man has invented almost everything in the world, the industrial revolution, cars, bicycle, planes, space exploration, cures for disease, written language, rockets, harnessed the atom, submarines, musical instruments, indoor plumbing, electricity, refrigeration, air conditioning, computers, mapping out the solar systems. putting an man on the moon, so many things to list, everything is owed to Caucasians.

[@as-yv7ur]

@@tlk0216 and stolen ideas, countries/land, inventions, changed black peoples who were famous for inventions and noble things to a white person