The Holy Bible has eaten the soul of my nation from the inside and left it an empty and stinking shell

to a nation, tall and smooth,

to a people feared near and far,

a nation mighty and conquering

whose land the rivers divide.”

A very twisted reading indeed, for if there was in the African Great Lakes a nation of “tall” people, it would be the Tutsi Rwandans, the archenemies of the Congolese. When all this happened, I don’t have a clue. But The Holy Bible had effectively done its damage…and today most Congolese live with the expectation that Armageddon---and the ensuing high---might strike anytime!

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