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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.
The Conversation About Congo's Future Has Started.
Coverage, interviews, and statements from Patrice Majondo Mwamba and Our Congo Our Pride.
NFL Alum and Congo Candidate Warns Trump's Minerals Deal Is at Risk, Offers a Plan to Save It
Patrice Majondo Mwamba tells The Gateway Pundit why the Trump administration's minerals partnership with the DRC is at risk. He points to weak governance in Kinshasa, growing Chinese influence, and President Tshisekedi's push to change the constitution to extend his own rule. He also lays out the plan he believes can protect Congo's mineral wealth for its people and secure the deal for both countries.
Read The Interview →Patrice Majondo Mwamba Makes The Case Against 66 Years Of Socialism On The Matt Gaetz Show
On The Matt Gaetz Show on OAN, Patrice explains why 66 years of socialism have failed the Congolese people. He lays out his plan to break that grip by embracing capitalism and opening Congo's vast natural resources to private sector investment.
The Full Vision
During the 2023 presidential campaign, Patrice Majondo Mwamba sat for two in depth interviews laying out his complete vision for Congo. Both carry English subtitles for viewers who want to study his answers closely.
The Complete Vision on RTNC
His full case for Congo. The youth, the diaspora, the economy, the east, justice, and national unity.
RTNC, 2023. English subtitles.The Campaign Interview on Top Congo FM
A direct, unscripted conversation pressing him on how he would govern and what he would change.
Top Congo FM, 2023. English subtitles.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.
2025 SABC NewsThabo Mbeki Foundation Dialogue
Invited participant at the Thabo Mbeki Foundation Peace and Security Dialogue in South Africa.
2025 RFI, Le Grand InviteThe Future of Congolese Youth
Interview on RFI, the most widely heard radio network across francophone Africa, during the 2023 campaign.
2023 Radio OkapiCandidacy 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 Invite
On RFI during the 2023 campaign, on the future of Congolese youth, education, and training.
French · 2 min 38 sKinshasa Interview
Filmed in Kinshasa during the 2023 campaign, in person, before the Congolese press.
French · 3 min 28 sThabo Mbeki Foundation
Invited to the Peace and Security Dialogue in South Africa.
English · 2025The First to Step Aside
On Top Congo FM, the first candidate to withdraw in 2023. Despite withdrawing, he finished 12th of 26.
French · 2023The Day He Filed
October 8, 2023. Filing his presidential candidacy at the CENI headquarters in Kinshasa.
Footage · 2023When We Were Hopeful
Filmed after the inauguration, when the movement still believed in the process. Good faith, documented.
French · 2024There Is More Happening In Congo Than One Campaign.
The national dialogue, the diaspora's push for a real seat at the table, and the global scramble for Congo's critical minerals are all moving at once. Here is what serious outlets are reporting, in one place.
Opposition Sets a Deadline for the National Dialogue
The C64 coalition has given the government until August 15 to formally convene the inclusive dialogue President Tshisekedi proposed, after Catholic and Protestant church leaders helped broker a pause in planned protests.
Read at Fides →Diaspora Groups Push for a Real Seat, Not a Symbolic One
The Forum des Intellectuels Congolais de l'Étranger says it welcomes the dialogue but insists the diaspora's participation must be organized and substantive, not a handful of hand-picked names.
Read at AllAfrica →M23 Reported Pulling Back From Several Positions
Local media report M23 fighters withdrawing from a number of North Kivu towns as ceasefire pressure builds, though the security picture across the east remains fragile and contested.
Read at Africanews →On Genocost Day, a Reminder of What Minerals Have Cost
DRC's Washington ambassador marked the national day of remembrance for millions killed or displaced by resource-driven conflict, pressing American partners to ensure future mineral deals fund communities, not militias.
Read at PR Newswire →Underlying Drivers of the Conflict Persist Beyond M23
Analysts note the conflict's roots run deeper than any single armed group, pointing to contested mining areas like Rubaya, which alone produces a significant share of the world's coltan.
Read at Africa Center →Church Leaders Step In as Trust Wears Thin
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo and Reverend André Bokundoa, representing Congo's Catholic and Protestant communities, are mediating between a skeptical opposition and a government that has yet to formally convene the dialogue it announced.
Read at Pan African Visions →The Minerals Fight Behind The Headlines
Congo sits at the center of the world's race for cobalt, copper, and coltan. Here is how that race is being covered, and what it means for security in the east.
Tshisekedi Courts US Investors, Ties Minerals to Security
In Washington, Tshisekedi pitched Congo as a strategic partner on critical minerals while acknowledging illicit mining and informal supply chains help fuel the very violence gripping the east.
Read at Semafor →"We Are Exploited": Congolese Fear Losing Out Again
As Washington hosted its first Critical Minerals Ministerial, voices from Goma questioned whether a new US deal will benefit Congolese communities any more than past mineral agreements have.
Read at Al Jazeera →A US-Backed Paramilitary Force for the Mines
Kinshasa announced a $100 million, US and UAE-backed "mining guard" to secure sites still contested by armed groups, a sign of how militarized the scramble for minerals has become.
Read at Al Jazeera →China's Two-Decade Head Start in Congo's Mines
CSIS traces how the 2007 Sicomines deal gave Chinese firms mining rights worth tens of billions in exchange for infrastructure, a dominance the US is only now trying to counter.
Read at CSIS →A Minerals Deal Never Put Before Parliament
Public Citizen flags that the US-DRC minerals agreement was never presented to Congo's parliament for debate, and that a related decree shutting artisanal processing centers threatens millions of livelihoods.
Read at Public Citizen →Minerals-for-Security, Explained
Reuters reports the State Department is open to a minerals partnership after a Congolese senator pitched trading mineral access for US help against M23, part of a wider pattern of resource-for-protection diplomacy.
Read the report →Curated for context. Our Congo Our Pride is not affiliated with the outlets linked above. Updated periodically.
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.
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