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The Governor of North Kivu, Julien Paluku Kahongya addressing Muslims on Idd day.
The Governor of the Province of North Kivu, Julien Paluku Kahongya, has just published a book entitled “North Kivu between democracy and wars: Elements of the memories of Julien Paluku”. Professor Daniel Mukoko Samba, former VPM and Minister of Budget, presided over this grand opening ceremony. It was Saturday, December 17 last in the multi-purpose hall of Full Gospel of Goma. It must be said that this work, which constitutes for its author not only a cry for peace and love, but also a plea for reconstruction, traces the history of the great province of North Kivu. Presenting the book, Professor Jean-Paul Segihobe explained in detail the themes addressed by the Author. Below, the entire presentation of the book by the Author.
What can we say after these masterful presentations and comments of the eminent Professors, if not only you wish good reading and tell you, verbally, thank you for your presence here on this eminently scientific ceremony. All these comments bearing testimony go straight to my heart and encourage me.
In fact, the book for which we are here this morning and which I titled passionately “THE NORTH KIVU BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND WARS. Elements of the Memoirs of Julien PALUKU KAHONGYA “is, in some respects, autobiographical, since in the first part I describe in what context and how I was elected Governor. Beyond a few central and peripheral subjects linked to my journey from the Deputy to the Governor, to the relations between the Provincial Executive and the Provincial Assembly, to my speeches and presentations, the heart of the book focuses on the Governor’s struggle In a province still on the move.
As the reader in contact with this work will immediately notice, in its first part, I used a style reserved for the novel. Perhaps this is where the specificity of the present work lies, the few lines of which are written as if I were clearly part of the writers who simply write the books they themselves want to read.
Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen
This book of 893 pages is illuminated by my experience, my journey and especially the striking moments of the war. A book is like a child, it has a father, it has a course, it is subject to the vagaries and bad weather of the environment. As much as it is difficult to live a reality, it becomes difficult to transmit it, because it is necessary to make a choice between the intimate part and the universal part, that is to say, what belongs to humanity and Which passes by itself. A book has meaning only if it reinforces humanism, if it contributes to the strengthening of knowledge. And if today I have allowed myself to write this experience, it is probably not to make a novel, or amusing anyone, but it is a quest so that each of you finds in this experience The universal.
And for ours, we have chosen, readily, Professor SEGIHOBE, Rector of UNIGOM and President of the conference of heads of establishments of the ESU to give its structure. A book must be on the baptismal font, and the one who does it with honor for our book is Daniel Mukoko Samba, Professor at the University of Kinshasa and Deputy Prime Minister and Honorary Minister of the Budget. What a good omen for this book? Perhaps also for myself? Well, beside these two professors, I salute all the other eminent Professors present in this room, especially Professor Wasso, who has just made his analysis of the book in his capacity as a constitutionalist.
I thank them most sincerely for spontaneously accepting to enhance the presence of this opening ceremony of my work. It goes straight to my heart and I am particularly flattered by it, because it shows the special interest you attach to the works of the mind.
My great concern would be for my testimony to be shed even modestly to the national experience of freedom and dignity. Time and space separate us. Some are born there, others here, confronted with experiences, no doubt different, and live their differences. The great conquest of man is to recognize himself in the other. Thus we will reach together the strength of the mind which is it outside time and space. It is the place of convergence and resemblance.
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen;
What is the content of the book, ask some of you? As you can see from Professor SEGIHOBE’s presentation of Prof. SEGIHOBE’s book and the comments of constitutionalist Prof. WASSO, the book on the baptismal font on this day contains eleven chapters distributed for reasons Of the approach I have chosen, in two parts.
In its first part,
