Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
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- Writer
- Editor
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo is an activist filmmaker who has helped to document the not so well covered realities of post colonial life in Africa.He was born and grew up in Goma, a town in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo close to the border of Uganda.He graduated from the experimental, cultural and ecological workshop in Tchimba. During the outbreak of war in the mid 199Os in nearby Rwanda, he was forced to flee and ended up in a refugee camp in Kampala, Uganda where he later founded, in the early 2000s, a cultural center called Yole! Africa (Yole means to come together, a word used by herders to call their flocks) Yole! which offers youth training away from violence and toward various arts, community development and advocacy work, was later re-established in 2005 in his native Goma. Ndaliko instituted the first film festival in the Democratic Republic of Congo, called SKIFF (Salaam Kivu International Film Festival) which offers a ten day program.He married Cherie Rivers, a Northern California born scholar who has taught music at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.