What will the future hold for this rich country, handed over to the vultures' feast, if not the urgent need and readiness for Congolese people to become aware and seize the opportunity history offers them - to play their rightful role in Africa?

For better or worse, the example of the gold-rich Kibali-Ituri region- like many other regions in Africa plagued by “ethnic” conflicts - calls for the deconstruction of the notion of ethnicity/tribe, which manipulators use to justify their crimes: killing and looting.

"Use weapons of gold, and nothing will resist you," advised the Oracle of Delphi to King Philip of Macedon. Multinationals follow the same advice.
Gold is not possessed by the countries that produce it, for trapped in conflict, they suffer from the resource curse, the so-called “Dutch disease.”
Congo-Kinshasa is a vivid illustration of this, as revealed through the pages of this book.

Born on January 5, 1959, in Vanga in the Kwilu region (Bandundu), Nicaise Kibel’bel Oka is one of the rare investigative journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He is the director of Les Coulisses, a French-language biweekly, and also heads the Center for Geopolitical Studies and Research of Eastern Congo (C.E.R.G.E.C.), which specializes in geopolitical and geostrategic research on the Great Lakes region of Africa.

He is the recipient of several awards: the Toges Noires Prize (DRC, 1994), the Abraham Conservation Award (USA, 2006), and the 2009 African Press Freedom Award presented by CNN. In 2014, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) named him among the 100 Information Heroes worldwide.

Nicaise Kibel’bel Oka has published:
“DRC: Border Wars with Its Three Neighbors” (L’Harmattan, 2006) and “The Congolese Puppets” (Éditions du Panthéon, 2012).