Global Review Topic is Street Children of Kinshasa

As a child in the Zaire, now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Gilbert Mulamba was one of the many boys chasing the Muhammad Ali motorcade through the Kinshasa street in 1974 before the legendary  “Rumble in the Jungle” between Ali and heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman.

Today a resident of Raleigh, N.C., Mulamba is a biological scientist, author and filmmaker who has made a documentary, “The Street Children of Kinshasa,” about the crisis and alarming increase of street children in Kinshasa.  The film will be shown and Mulamba will be the guest at this year’s opening Global Review current events forum at Illinois State University.

Admission is free and open to the public at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in the Eleanor Kong Room in Walker Hall at Illinois State.  Global Review is a weekly international current events forum for the discussion of international and related topics, sponsored by the Global Review Student Association.

Mulamba directed and produced the documentary as well as composed the music in the film.  “The Street Children of Kinshasa” is his first solo documentary release.