On Congo Love and Pan-African Feminism with Patricia Lokwa Servant Part 1

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

I met this week’s guest Patricia Lokwa Servant last November in Accra at a Forge: Harnessing Creative Arts for Reparatory Justice. The convening turned out to be a mini Glocal Citizens summit for us Accra-based peeps lead by Makmid Kamara in his new role leading Reform Initiatives, with Esther Armah and Nyamal Tutdeal participating as facilitators and storytellers Emmanual Etim and Brigitte Perenyi also took part. The program was designed to strengthen the reparations movement by fostering solidarity among artists, cultural workers, civil society, and government leaders across the African diaspora and I can say that as a group we gained much and continue to make progress amongst ourselves. This is indeed indicative of this conversation with Patricia, a program strategist, storyteller, and cultural organizer born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is the Founder of http://CongoLove.org , Co-Founder of the Andrée Blouin Cultural Center in Kinshasa, and a Development Consultant with Friends of the Congo. Her work centers African knowledge, community resilience, and youth leadership across the continent and the global diaspora.

For more than a decade, she has designed and led multi-country initiatives strengthening institutions, expanding equity, and building pathways for collective empowerment. She has supported regional movements with Africans Rising, helped shape global narrative and education ecosystems with Farafina: The Black Link, and advanced gender-responsive learning programs with the African Women Development Fund.

Patricia currently serves as Fundraising and Partnerships Lead for SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College in Ghana, where she strengthens donor systems and cultivates cross-border collaborations with aims of supporting young African students. She is also the former host of the radio show Congo Live, where she amplified stories of Congolese culture, history, and global engagement.

Patricia’s work bridges generations and geographies. She remains committed to building systems that honor African memory, uplift community wisdom, and support young people to lead with purpose and dignity. With Pan-Africanism at the heart of her life’s work, Patricia is making her mark as an architect of our collective #panafricanprogress mission!

Where to find Patricia?
CongoLove.org
On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook

What’s Patricia listening to?
Lucky Dube

Other topics of interest:
About the Civil War in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1993
About Congolese Activist Kambale Musuvili
Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of Congo in his own words
On (Pan)-African Feminism
Kongo: Power and Majesty at the MET and thoughts from curator, Alisa LaGamma
About Dossier No. 77
About Ernest Wamba dia Wamba
USA for Africa + Marcia Thomas
About Emira Woods
About Coumba Toure
About Hakima Abbas and the Black Feminist Fund
About Filmmaker Thalia Mavros