Congolese women use slam poetry to speak out amid conflict

”That’s where I come from. I come from the depths and the silence. Funds have become kings since reason was confined to psychiatry.

Where art is desecrated when it is feminine, where the dollar civilizes with weapons and the weakest man is content to drown in the river of their tears.”

These are the words penned and spoken by poet Esther Abumba, a resident of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Aged 23, Esther has chosen slam as…