A friend has shared with me the story of Queen Diambi of Congo. She lives in the USA and discovered her heritage in her late 40s. So joyful and hopeful! I have watched a long video of an interview with her. (See link below) Almost 2 hours and it has taken me a couple of weeks – but I am so glad I took the time! Much is happening in Africa and globally! Great wisdom and messages are shared in the interview.
Great change is coming! I an deeply heartened.
Here is my letter to Queen Diambi tonight.
Dear Queen Diambi:
I humbly write to you. I have just seen and listened to your interview with Robert Edward Grant. I am a 68 year old woman who lives in the hills of upstate NY and I returned less than a month ago from a journey to Congo. I connected with an organization in Goma called “Remember Youth for Change” which brings love and help and support to the community and to refugees in the area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxAap-JkGAo
[Bienve speaks directly to us from his heart in this short video linked above.]
There is much challenge in Goma now as the international mafia is closing in on the city, removing those nearby from their land to attempt to gain wealth from the minerals that have been found there.
I am changed by my journey, and a friend shared your video with me which is so inspiring. Thank you.
I am having a vision of a new world and especially of preserving and revealing and looking to tribal ways.
I love what you said about the journey of Africans in this country.
My (adopted) daughter, my sister’s child, is the daughter of a Native American man, taken from his tribe at the age of 4 or 5 and a woman of European descent. She married an African American man and her 2 sons carry a great deal, both suffering and transformation. One has just been elected to his local school board in CT at the age of 22 and plans to attend law school. The other, 24, went to Uganda with my son and is on his own journey, also in college.
I don’t know why I am telling you all this. I suppose it has to do with tribal ways and healing and personal strength …and the joining of multiple cultures through my daughter.
I am a shamanic practitioner, which ties me personally to tribal wisdom. My mission is to help.
I am helping Bienvenu Kamwendo, the founder of “Remember Youth for Change,” in his mission to bring meaning and wellbeing to young people through music. I’m hoping to send a few saxophones soon to join the musical mission he has started in Goma – along with the sewing enterprise he has created which provides school shirts for refugee students, and re-usable menstrual pads for sale. He oversees gardens that provide food in the refugee camps and so much more. I had the privilege of connecting with children and others in the Bulango Refugee Camp outside of Goma, providing a large meal there and connected with those in another camp for displaced persons as well.
My trip was short, just over a week, but it has changed me. I am finding my way to my new self through writing. My story starts on the blog at 8hummingbirdway.com – on 2/8/2024.
I felt so moved by your interview. Thank you. I had to reach out.
Thank you for your presence and your path and your work in the remote villages you preside over.
All blessings.
Listen to Robert Edward Grant’s interview with Queen Diambi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR5r11Ui0K4&t=2357s
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