The problem of DRC’s beautiful wife, maize it planted by roadside
African proverb states that “the man who marries a beautiful woman and the farmer who grows maize by the roadside have the same problem.” Fior DR Congo to win its war, first, it will have to plant its own maize and fight its war for its own beautiful wife.. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
Watching the upheaval in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, one is tempted to invoke the African proverb that “the man who marries a beautiful woman and the farmer who grows maize by the roadside have the same problem.”
The police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse protesters who burned tyres and US and Belgian flags near Western embassies and UN offices in the capital Kinshasa, angry about insecurity in eastern Congo.
