This Friday, March 17, 2023, at Local 6 of the Faculty of SSAP of Unikin from 9 a.m., a scientific interview was held for students, learners, and teacher-researchers on the issues related to Land Governance in the DRC and its corollaries.

The speaker focused his intervention on four axes, namely:

The birth of the Congolese State

Professor Michel Bisa reminded the audience that in the history of civilizations, Africa was the first power to dominate the world for nearly a thousand years. (Egyptology). He also emphasized that it was Arab-Islamic slavery that preceded colonial exploitation in Africa. This Muslim empire extended into the Congo Basin and had its capital at Maniema-Kasongo between 1400 and 1885.

The issue of the Kongo Kingdom was also raised by the speaker (King Nzinga a Nkuvu) and the fundamental virtues of the kingdom (knowledge, polygamy, ancestral insignia of power, etc. And in the point mentions were also made on the causes of the breakup of the Kongo kingdom).

In his speech, the speaker insisted that to understand the history of the Congo, it is imperative to know that of Leopold II, citizen of the world, son of + the conditions of the Berlin Act (Leopold I, German naturalized English, husband of Princess Louise of Orleans, daughter of King Louis Philippe of France); the mission and objective of the convening of the Berlin conference was not the sharing of Africa but rather the delimitation of the Congo basin to make this large space in the center of Africa a multinational society.

The main problems, namely land, criminal, security, local and national:

the land and its natural and cultural contents. This involves educational and scientific coaching on major land, climate and natural resource issues in the context of the Congo Basin and with regard to the socio-political, socio-economic, socio-anthropological, legal/normative and socio-cultural dimensions linked to the management and local, national and international governments of land resources, the basis of the multiple and multifaceted wars that threaten the life and survival of the Nation-State in Congo Kinshasa.

In this part, the speaker shared with the audience the main problems that Congo has with its neighbors, namely Angola (coastal area due to oil exploitation and the Kabinda enclave), Congo-Brazzaville (management of the Congo River and the granting of land along the Congo River coast to the Rwandan sovereign fund for agricultural activities), the northern part (the project to transfer water from the Congo River to Lake Chad, which is drying up, the Mbororo issue).
Along the same lines, there are reportedly nearly 800km of border area without any state presence. In the Eastern Community, the Congolese state faces a demographic problem (Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, etc.).

Prof. Michel Bisa warns that if this demographic problem is not contained, it will lead to demographic rebalancing and fair access to the natural and mineral resources of the Congo.
Beyond all these considerations, the speaker made a distinction between the funds: green (which come from our forests), blue (linked to the waters of the Congo River) and red (from war and blood).
He also mentioned the phenomenon of land grabbing by politicians (The vast expanses subjected to the games of local, national and international actors will have opened the way to an unprecedented form of modern-day colonialism through the practices of vampirization of the State (Michel Bisa, 2019), of a kleptocracy (Héritier Mambi) which means that the State has remained a baby (Émile Bongeli) more than 62 years after its political independence of June 30, 1960) and invited the audience to build unity together with a view to building collective happiness (peace, by preparing children for perpetual war given our geopolitical and geostrategic position in Africa.

For the Speaker, there is a difference between an investor (who invests legally by following the legislation in force) and a trafficker (who invests in disorder or in unofficial ways (violence).

Summary of the Facilitation of Prof. Michel BISA KIBUL