Description

This collection was born from the meeting between Papa Mutombo, then 84 years old, and the publisher, who was deeply moved by his manuscript written in Tshiluba, his mother tongue. In a rare and moving gesture, he undertook to record the proverbs and wisdom passed down by his ancestors. His project is part of a broader effort of cultural transmission and the rehabilitation of African memory, long marginalized.

Shaken by the celebration of Halloween in Canada — while the ancestral cult had been forbidden to him during his colonial childhood — he decided to write in order to bear witness, to heal, and to pass on.

First published in Tshiluba, this collection is now available in a bilingual version, and soon in English. It is an act of resistance, a bridge between generations, and a powerful voice from Kasai carried into the concert of cultures in Canada.

This book honors the dead and restores pride to those whom history has too often reduced to silence.

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