Comments on: In Congo, Diamonds are Whose Best Friend ?

By: silvester mutua

silvester mutua — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:59:53 +0000

dear mama,am very grateful to cme across ua this site.I have been looking for an opportunity to come to mbuji mayi purposely to buy diamonds.Kindly may you connect me with honest and rightful merchants from mbuji mayi

By: Sylascidibi

Sylascidibi — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:45:00 +0000

i woul like to know where the most wanted and valued diamonds in mbujimayi are.

By: paul muanga

paul muanga — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:55:28 +0000

Dear sir/madame i just want find out how to buy diamonds in Congo, your faithfull badibanga.

By: jigish shah (india)

jigish shah (india) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:11:08 +0000

dear terese & jhon
i m coming mbhuji-mayi in 2007 for buy diamonds.mbhji-mayi is very big diamond market…i like there pupils….i fill grate time overthere…i make good friend in mbhji-mayi

By: Terese Hart

Terese Hart — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:16:09 +0000

Mark,
You are of my generation. I also first came to Congo in 1974 to teach. I was a Peace Corps teacher (but only at secondary school level) for two years in northeastern Zaire and loved it — taught biology, chemistry and, of course, English. I also do remember reading — way back — la philosophie bantoue. Still love it here…although la philosophie capitaliste (perhaps with a Bantoue twist) is in full swing and (to my dismay) the philospohie environomentaliste is generally pretty low on the list.

By: marc ryan

marc ryan — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:07:00 +0000

Wy wife Suzanne and I were teachers in Mbuji-Mayi from 69 to 71 with Canadian University Service Overseas and really enjoyed our experience. A lot is difficult to explain… and I recommend reading the 135 page book LA PHILOSOPHIE BANTOUE by PLACIDE TEMPELS published in the 1940s.

By: Nahid Shaikh

Nahid Shaikh — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:43:40 +0000

Dear terese and John,

I am working for the National belgian television. As you know, Congo has been a colony of Belgium and given the fact they will celebrate their 50th independence anniversary next year, we are making a whole series of documentaries for the belgian TV. I am working on kisangani and Oriental and would like to get in touch with you to ask you more questions about bonobo’s, pygmies, wildlife and congo in general. Do you have an email address where I can reach you?

Thanks a lot,

hope to hearing from you soon,

nahid

By: Terese Hart

Terese Hart — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:43:47 +0000

I imagine middlemen. People who will either take them to Europe or sell to someone else who will take them to Europe. I did not trace the path of the parallel market, but it would be very interesting to know it. Perhaps the sort of project that World Resource Institute would undertake -?

By: Greg Davies

Greg Davies — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:39:30 +0000

>A third of the world’s industrial diamonds come >from Mbuji Mayi. After World War II, it was the >number one producer worldwide.

*Those are astounding figures (a bit like the DRC being a big source of uranium).

So who is buying the diamonds from the market? Middlemen?