tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post2945316525364361391..comments2024-02-24T06:10:42.255-08:00Comments on Congo Siasa: Hair fetishes, etc.Jason Stearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11454449854081540397noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-81867005190539786702010-04-15T06:48:53.947-07:002010-04-15T06:48:53.947-07:00Mario Zarsa Manresa hairdo reminds me of "twi...Mario Zarsa Manresa hairdo reminds me of "twitter offer", a poem by the popular Dutch tv poet Nico Dijkshoorn: "A shampoo company offered me 1000 dollars if I twitter that I don't use their shampoo"Colored Opinionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17172030328954992750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-90520992970452221122010-04-14T12:12:00.653-07:002010-04-14T12:12:00.653-07:00Dear Jason,
thanks for your very informative blog ...Dear Jason,<br />thanks for your very informative blog (my guide to all thing related to DRC). As I have already told Alex Engwete, I have used your entries on this topic to write about the Spanish media coverage of the news on DRC (http://onafrica.maneno.org/esp/articles/hlr1271269709/)!schauzerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16109813990390409205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1209670742820403516.post-86135756136590410012010-04-14T09:50:43.400-07:002010-04-14T09:50:43.400-07:00I couldn't stop laughing reading this post... ...I couldn't stop laughing reading this post... Well, it's the Congolese information minister Lambert Mende Omelanga who announced that the Basque physician Mario Zarsa Manresa had been abducted and shaved--his hair used as "nkisi" (Lingala = juju) to turn bullets into water. I think it's a news worthy item as the Enyele are led by shamans who made them believe they're invulnerable to bullets... I even wrote a post on the subject (you'd certainly disagree with it), quoting Ernesto Che Guevara who'd found the same belief in "dawa" (Swahili = juju) among the Congolese Marxist revolutionaries of Laurent Kabila in the 1960s in eastern Congo... The jump from hair to body parts of Caucasians could happen, especially as next door in Tanzania they hunt albinos for body parts to be used in the manufacture jujus...Alex Engwetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12656045897777865794noreply@blogger.com