Fred Bauma

Year in review
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Voices of the Humanosphere 2016: Fred Bauma of Congo

As a year-in-review sort of thing (which we – and all media – do this week to disguise the fact that we’re trying to not to work much over the holiday), I’m going to highlight some of our top podcasts of 2016. Today, it’s Fred Bauma who is fighting for democracy and rule of law in DR Congo. With the country in a very precarious political place right now, it will be crucial for the international community to support activists like Bauma.

Podcasts
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Fred Bauma: On the front lines of Congo’s fight for democracy

For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with a heroic young man from the Democratic Republic of Congo – Fred Bauma. We don’t use the word heroic at Humanosphere too often. Not that we don’t regularly write about humanitarians who do important and self-sacrificing work aimed at helping those most in need. But the label ‘hero’ seems especially appropriate when applied to Bauma, a soft-spoken 26-year-old who some have dubbed Congo’s Mahatma Gandhi.