On this symbolic day, his birthday isn’t raising a glass in the gilded circles of power. He isn’t celebrating in the luxury of Kinshasa, surrounded by the Republic’s courtiers.
Manzi Will, Vice-Governor of North Kivu, remains true to his essence: discreet, determined, and fully devoted to one thing, his people.
To those in the West of the country who still cling to messages of hatred and thinly-veiled xenophobia, to certain extremists within the UDPS who, lacking arguments, resort to calling him “Rwandan” as if it were a crime, the truth must be said, plainly and firmly.
If history had just been the colonial partitioning of Africa hadn’t been a brutal act of arbitrary lines, perhaps the borders would look different today.
Perhaps he would be Rwandan. But he is Congolese, deeply. By his roots. By his land. By the blood of his family, shed by the FDLR the same militias that some now hypocritically support.
They tried to erase a bloodline. They tried to break a destiny. But he rose. He grew. He learned. He saw the world. And most importantly, he came back. Not to benefit. But to fight. To serve.
His battle is not political theater. It is a deep, personal commitment to North Kivu, a wounded province he refuses to see sink into chaos or neglect.
While others bask in luxury and political scheming, he works quietly, relentlessly, wholeheartedly.
For him, even his birthday is not a celebration, but a reminder: of the weight of responsibility, of the silent vow he made to his homeland.
Thanks to him, roads have been reopened, schools restored, health centers supported, displaced families comforted. Not through speeches, but through action.
Because in the face of insults, slander, and hate, one thing always prevails: loyalty to a cause.
“Despite obstacles, threats, and campaigns of hatred, Manzi Will, Vice-Governor of North Kivu, has remained faithful to his mission: to ease the suffering of his peoples.
Thanks to him, thousands of lives have been changed not by promises, but through concrete actions.”
