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Preaching with a megaphone in Congo

Our correspondent Petna filmed a Congolese evangelist who walks the muddy streets of Goma with a megaphone in his hand.

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Profile: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Name: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo Location: Goma, Congo Read more...

Profile: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

March 18, 2010

Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Petna, our Congo correspondentName: Petna Ndaliko Katondolo

Location: Goma, Congo

Age: 33

What are you doing ten years from now?

Filming, telling stories, filming…

What is your image of Holland?

Holland used to have this image of a free country. It used to be a symbol of freedom. Now I’m surprised when I am walking in the streets there I have to look over my shoulders to see if nothing is wrong. I think we are losing our community values. If we could retrieve the same Holland I knew, that would be nice.

What national politician do you want to interview, and why?

The minister of education. I would like to know what his priority is.

If you would be able to export a characteristic of your country, what would it be?

Our hospitality and generosity.

If you would be able to ban a characteristic of your people, what would it be?

Their prejudice.

Metropolis Cribs: Petna in Congo

Today, meet Petna in Kinshasa, Congo. Read more...

Metropolis Cribs: Petna in Congo

January 22, 2010

What’s it like to be a Metropolis correspondent? From Sana’a to New York and from Beijing to Ouagadougou: in this series of portraits our correspondents tell about the city they live in, they show us around in their home and their workplace. Today, meet Petna in Kinshasa, Congo. His favorite report is the one on obesity in his country.

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I’m a believer

Everywhere in the world we find young people who dedicate their life to their religion. They do this by choosing to live by strict religious rules, or by choosing a career as a clergyman. The correspondents of Metropolis made portraits about religious young people all around the world. Read more...

I’m a believer

April 9, 2008

God is hot Everywhere in the world we find young people who dedicate their life to their religion. They do this by choosing to live by strict religious rules, or by choosing a career as a clergyman. The correspondents of Metropolis made portraits about religious young people all around the world.

People sing and dance in the ceremonies of the young Zambian reverend Steady Devine, a reverend who doesn’t hide the fact that church is a good place to meet a nice woman. The young Kaleb Martin from Ethiopia is a religious Rasta: he is a descendant of a Jamaican family that moved to Ethiopia, which is the Promised Land for Rastafaris. In Burkina Faso we meet up with Hamidou, he doesn’t live with his parents, but studies at a Talibé, a strict Quranschool, where he lives and learns.

The Moroccan Meryem is a young Morchiba, a teacher of the Islam, and she tells correspondent Selma why she devotes her life to her religion, and what she thinks about other women, the Islam and other religions. Twenty-three-year old Vasif from Azerbeidzjan has recently decided to live his life conform to the strict rules of the Islam: he used to entertain himself with alcohol and women, but now he wants to live a pure life.