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...
http://www.dailymotion.com/m2005/inge/video/xtdff_inge-bongo-et-sa- villa About 2/3 way into this video is Inge and her house. Worth a view. ... is ... a ... ...
This is preposterous. What we have here is a clip from the series "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" that has nothing to do with anyone in Gabon - overdubbed...
Brad, The original aired on VH1. http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx? articleid=306832&area=/insight/insight__africa/. When I was last in Gabon, I was shown a...
May 7, 2007 -- The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year SDR 77.15 million (about US$117.3 million) Stand-By...
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - The United States and other developed countries are increasingly turning to West Africa in their scramble for oil, but for...
.....Blaise Rewaka ran the fastest 800-meter time in the state this year.....Rewaka's work ethic carries over into the classroom. The NYU- bound Rewaka holds a...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtmlxml=/earth/2007/06/07/ealogg0 7.xml Last week I, was in Alaska and was told by several locals in the timber industry...
According to news reports, Bongo said he is open to accepting the Uighurs (Five Muslims from western China's Uighur ethnic minority, captured and sent to...
Just to annoy Amin: http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/15/pf/most_expensive_cities/index.htm?eref=rss_topstories - Brad ... Ne gardez plus qu'une seule adresse mail...
Fraud inquiry into leaders breaks `special protection'; London Times Police have opened an unprecedented investigation into claims that two African heads of...
What craziness. I am ok with Omar Bongo's wealth. Just as I am ok with the wealth of the ruling family in Saudi Arabia or with the decadent billions amassed by...
I thought that I just did that with my last post. But I am dead serious though. The situation is analogous to practicing the shot put in a glass house. Ciao, ...
What a bizarre argument! To justify one person stealing because everyone else does it!!! The question should not be why they are going after him but when are...
Before too many more stones are thrown on here at Bongo, suggest that all aficionados of Gabon read 'Poisoned Wells, The Dirty Politics of African oil' by...
The only thing bizarre about it is that you do not say anything about the other guys. Better yet, you admire them and want to be like them. That is the height...
Dupont, I take it by "you" you are refereeing to people in the world in general and not me personally. Or maybe only the people in this group. But even if...
Interesting how you put words in other people's mouths but do not recognize your own hypocrisy - where do you live again? Oh yea - America. Try living with the...
Dupont, It's not too late to sign up for remedial summer school for illiterates who have not heard about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that has given...
Bob, Thanks for this initial posting and for the reading recommendations; I just ordered those books! Kudos as well to dupont for putting the article in a new...
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