Speakers

Lukah Katangila is a Choreographer, Dancer, Interpreter and Activist born in Goma North Kivu Eastern DR Congo. He aims to meet people, to share dance styles in different cultures around the world and to bring a United Africa from central to east and west, from south to north Africa and Europe. His passion for hip hop, contemporary and traditional African dance originates within his native country. From the age of six he got in touch with the arts within the Mboka Dance Family in his grandfather’s Kingdom, where he was introduced to dance and the play of African instruments like djembe, likembe, kalumbatini, marimba, dungu and kinubi. After the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in 2002 he founded the project Ndoto Goma Kids with his brothers and friends. Children are often nicknamed Kadogo (Engl Little unimportant thing) by armed groupes in Kivu. This project between the Great lakes region claims the rights of children, speaks up against ethnic conflicts and the enrolment of children in armed groups. Their message is clear: STOP the abuse of children in the front lines of war.