Thanks, Bob. I'll post that interesting bit of news in the July LTR. ... From: gabondiscussion@yahoogroups.com on behalf of bobutne Sent: Sat 3/31/2007 8:50 PM...
Slate, John Ghazvinian, April 3, 2007 The United States now imports more of its oil from Africa than it does from Saudi Arabia. How is oil and the money it...
This article is really on target, but there are a few errors. I hope I won't get labeled "cynical" for attempting to correct them. The author asks why bananas...
In June 2002, right in front of the Hotel InterContinental, I pleaded to a beautiful young women, carrying a large stack of bananas on her head, for her...
In 2002, I was in the heart of the rain forest in the National Park, La Lope Reserve, and the guide pointed out several former logging roads that were entirely...
Bob and Dale, Take heart, there's still hope. In a recent issue of National Geographic an article written by Michael Fay, the environmentalist who hiked across...
Gary et al., There are in fact 13 new parks that the government agreed to create (around 10 percent of the small country's land mass). See photos from them at:...
Good points. I forgot to add that when the logging companies in Gabon enter an area of the forest, they only select/remove a small proportion of the trees....
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/05/news/17950.shtml By Catherine Mevs, Princetonian Staff Writer One month after graduating from Harvard in...
http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=563 Excerpts: "..most French-speaking African leaders are French by nationality and secondly, the...
I agree. The real success of the Peace Corps concept is not that we delivered great benefits to our host nations but that, through close contact with other...
Sorry about that. I didn't mean to imply all Bwiti was this but that the "ritualistic ceremony" they were referring to was also referred to as Bwiti in Gabon....
Gabon suspects lynched after ritual murder of boy LIBREVILLE, April 13 (Reuters) - Gabon's government on Friday appealed to the public not to take justice in...
That's a very obnoxious and completely false accusation. ... From: Amin F. Abari <aminabari@...> To: gabondiscussion@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April...
No Dale, I did not read it in the local press and I never claimed it was reported anywhere in Gabon. If you think something like this could or would be...
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/16/eng20070416_366694.html A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) met in Beijing on Sunday with a...
I must say, I have never once heard of any of this being related to bwiti. Never have I head of bwiti and sacrifices going together. Now the rose croix...yes....
The heads of state and government from the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) meeting in N'djamena, Chad, Thursday have agreed to bring...
by Francesco Fontemaggi, AFP News brief Gabon's rapidly disappearing pygmies live on the fringes of society, often working in conditions akin to slavery and...
Hi Tom, Did I ask you already if I could print some of your answer (below) in the July Letter? In rereading your reply, I saw a line that reminds me of the...
Hi Darcy, It is such a pleasure for me to re-read what I wrote! I was really feeling down today and this really brought me back up again. Please feel free to...
I have been trying many times to put my pictures up from my lastest trip out to Fougamou. However, it seems not to like me and won't let me post pictures!! I...
Lindsay, I'd LOVE to see some photos of Collège Léon Mboumba - especially the staff there. Does it still have the same principal and directeur des études...
AH, you are going to hate me!! I didn't take any of the college!! I will be going back before I move to Paris though, after I get back from Bangkok this...
I'm sharing a list of links to videos that may interest some of you: Vyckos Ekondo and the Tandima (a Gabonese dance group who have performed around the world...
alright, on flickr.com if you just search whatever. then when you get to the next page,go to the top where it says search and go to people. there, type in...
Thanks, Lindsay. Those pictures really stirred up memories. I was really happy to see Peeblé and his daughter. Perrine and I saw them when we visited in 2005....
"Inge Bongo, the heiress to a very rich country in Central Africa, is in town to purchase a home. [Estate agent] Kurt Rappaport shows her a $25-million...
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