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Congo deserves leadership worthy of its people.
Our Congo Our Pride is a movement born from love of country, organized by Congolese at home and across the world, united by one belief. Congo can be governed with honesty, competence, and dignity. We are the platform for those who are ready to build.
Congo is not a poor country. It is a powerful country that has never been organized for the benefit of its people. That is what we are here to change.
About the Movement
A movement built on what Congo has always had and never been given.
Our Congo Our Pride is a national civic movement founded by Patrice Majondo-Mwamba. A Congolese-born businessman, former professional athlete, and international advisor who has spent his career connecting Congo to the world. The movement is built around one conviction. The resources, the talent, and the will to build a great nation already exist within the Congolese people. What has been missing is leadership with the honesty and competence to organize it.
This movement is for every Congolese, wherever they live. For the patriots inside the country who have endured and refused to give up. For the millions in the diaspora who built lives abroad not because they stopped loving Congo, but because Congo was made unlivable. By corruption, by mismanagement, by leaders who feared capable people more than they valued them. Those people were pushed out. Their skills, their capital, their ambition, their love of country, locked out deliberately. Because competence is a threat to those who profit from chaos. Our Congo Our Pride says one thing. You were never less Congolese for leaving. Congo belongs to you as much as anyone. What happened to you happened to thousands. And it is time to come home. Not just physically, but in purpose. To invest, to build, and to do it together with serious people who are ready.
Accountability
Every decision made in Congo's name must answer to the Congolese people. Resources, contracts, and governance belong to the nation and to those who live in it.
Competence
Congo's challenges are serious and solvable. Security, jobs, infrastructure, and shared prosperity are the outcomes of capable leadership with a real plan.
Unity
East and west. Home and diaspora. Every generation, every province. Congo's strength has always been its people. This movement brings them together.
Dignity
Every Congolese citizen deserves to live without fear, to work with reward, and to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. That is the minimum a nation owes its people.
A Message from Patrice Majondo-Mwamba
This movement belongs to every Congolese who refuses to stop believing.
In 2023, I stood before the Congolese people as a presidential candidate because I believed, genuinely believed, that the moment for change had arrived. I chose to trust the democratic process. I stepped aside in the name of peace and continuity.
I understand now, as millions of Congolese understand, that trust was not rewarded.
What has unfolded since is the consequence of leadership without accountability. A government that inherited the hopes of an entire nation and has met none of them. The east burns. The economy does not work for ordinary people. The press is not free. Citizens who speak are silenced. And now, the very constitutional limits that were meant to protect Congolese democracy are being tested by the people who were supposed to honor them.
I have spent my career building bridges between Congo and the world. In business, in diplomacy, in the work of connecting Congo's extraordinary resources to partnerships that could finally benefit its people. I know what is possible for this country. I have seen it from inside and from outside, from Kinshasa and from Washington, from the ground and from the room where the deals are made. What is possible and what is happening are two entirely different things.
The Congolese people deserve better. Not as an aspiration. As a fact.
This movement was born from love of country and the refusal to accept that this is all Congo can be. It belongs to the patriot inside the country who gets up every morning and keeps going. It belongs to the professional in the diaspora who built something abroad and has never stopped thinking about home. It belongs to the young Congolese who inherited a situation they did not create and deserve a future they can actually reach.
Our Congo Our Pride is a platform for the capable, the committed, and the Congolese who are ready to build. The door is open. Come through it.
The Vision
A real plan for a real Congo.
Every challenge Congo faces today has a solution. None of them are mysteries. What they require is leadership that is honest, capable, and willing to put the Congolese people first. All of them. Everywhere.
The East Is Not Alone
What is happening in eastern Congo is a national wound that every Congolese carries. A unified Congo means a government that protects every citizen, in the Kivus, in Ituri, in every province, as its first and absolute obligation.
Open the Books
Congo's minerals belong to the Congolese people. Every contract, every concession, every deal signed in Congo's name will be published, audited, and made answerable to the public.
An Economy for Congolese
We will build the partnerships that turn raw minerals into industry, training, and jobs that stay in Congo. The world needs what Congo has. Congo will negotiate from a position of strength.
Infrastructure for Everyone
Roads, power, and connection from Kinshasa to every corner. Infrastructure is the foundation of everything. Commerce, security, healthcare, education, dignity.
Free Press, Free Citizens
No Congolese should fear speaking the truth about Congo. Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are Congolese rights, written by Congolese, for Congolese. They will be honored.
The Diaspora Comes Home
Hundreds of thousands of skilled Congolese live outside the country. We will build the conditions for return. Real investment frameworks, legal protections, and a government that welcomes capability.
This is what it looks like when a movement is serious about Congo. Every one of these commitments belongs to the people.
In the Press and On the Record
The conversation about Congo's future has started.
Coverage, interviews, and statements from Patrice Majondo-Mwamba and Our Congo Our Pride.
In the Press
Washington Gets Congo Fatigue
Patrice Majondo-Mwamba named co-founder of the Africa-USA Business Council and a key figure in initiating US-DRC minerals talks.
2025Thabo Mbeki Foundation Dialogue
Invited participant at the Thabo Mbeki Foundation Peace and Security Dialogue in South Africa.
2025The Future of Congolese Youth
Interview on RFI, the most widely heard radio network across francophone Africa, during the 2023 campaign.
2023Candidacy Coverage
Coverage by Radio Okapi, the DRC's leading independent radio network, of his candidacy registration.
2023On the Ground. On the Record.
RFI, Le Grand Invité
On RFI during the 2023 campaign, on the future of Congolese youth, education, and training.
Kinshasa Interview
Filmed in Kinshasa during the 2023 campaign, in person, before the Congolese press.
Thabo Mbeki Foundation
Invited to the Peace and Security Dialogue in South Africa.
The First to Step Aside
On Top Congo FM, the first candidate to withdraw in 2023. Despite withdrawing, he finished 12th of 26.
The Day He Filed
October 8, 2023. Filing his presidential candidacy at the CENI headquarters in Kinshasa.
When We Were Hopeful
Filmed after the inauguration, when the movement still believed in the process. Good faith, documented.
Join the Movement
This is where Congolese who are ready to build finally have somewhere to go.
Our Congo Our Pride is being built carefully and seriously. If you believe Congo deserves better, at home or anywhere in the world, add your name. When the moment comes, you will be among the first to know.
Your information is held in complete confidence.
This movement is built on trust. We will honor yours.