By Daniel Flynn, Reuters LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - The crowd of African women are tired and angry after hours waiting in the hot sun, but the officials will not ...
November 2, 2007 – It is 8 a.m. on October 23, 2007. The gray sky, covered by a thick hazy cloud, sprinkles soft morning dew on the neighborhoods of...
Bob, This is the best news I've heard about Gabon in a long time. This is a great opportunity to improve the lives of a lot of people. I will cross my fingers...
Tom, Before we 'break out the champagne', see todays Reuters story below: By Daniel Flynn LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Bodies of African migrants wash up on the ...
Bob, Remember that in 1962 the population of Gabon was about 400,000. Most of the people lived in small rural villages. They might not have been well fed but ...
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GM: While I agree that is is paramount for a country to feed itself if it is going to develop, I don't think you can do one without the other. In fact, I would...
The situation remains tenuous for NGOs and freedom of expression in Gabon. For more on what's going on with regard to this, visit http://www.pwypgabon.org/ MS...
Here is the BBC story link: ** Gabon suspends 'political' NGOs ** Gabon temporarily bans up to 20 non-government organisations for their alleged interference...
3A TELESUD, THE PAN-AFRICAN AND AFRO-EUROPEAN TELEVISION NETWORK IS BRINGING THE 2008 AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS LIVE IN THE USA AND CANADA ON WWW.TELESUD.US New...
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Oil producer Gabon on Friday accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government of arrogantly spurning France's old African allies by...
The Gabonese Minister of Economy, Finance, Budget and Privatisation, Paul Toungui, has signed an agreement with the ambassador of China to Gabon, Hxue Jinwei,...
PORT GENTILE, Gabon -- A sailor stationed on board the amphibious dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry was recognized Jan. 17 for helping save the life of a...
I'd like to announce a Summer Fete for Gabon RPCVs and others with connections and interest in the country. I've uploaded the complete invitation to the Files...
As long as I'm posting tonight I thought I would mention that I'm taking a class at the local University, "African Oral Traditional Literature." I have to...
Don, Somewhere in my books I think I have a book in French of comptes from Gabon or Central Africa. We just bought a house and are moving stuff around, I will ...
Hello - I have done over 100 interviews in Gabon as part of my research on the country's colonial history, and my friend and former PCV John Cinnamon is over...
EXTRA! EXTRA! I just received news that another fete - "Gabostock" - is being planned for the Monterey Bay area. Final dates have not been determined yet, but...
Don, I have a copy of "Contes gabonais" (en français, bien sûr), a collection of short stories from throughout Gabon. (I was particulary intrigued by the...
Hello Brad, I'd love to print one of those stories in the April newsletter: the fairy of the chutes or one of your mother's oral stories. Would that be...
Darcy et "batu botsi", I've uploaded the UNESCO-funded publication to the Yahoo discussion group's files. The book Contes gabonais - as well as many other...
The beaches on St. Croix are open for camping. Easter is the camping season here and people leave their home and set up camps on the beach. Some even take...
Thanks for the reply. If you have a favorite conte maybe you can scan and email it? The class covers how the story is told so If you ever experienced a conte...
Thanks for pointing me to these resources. I'll follow up on them as best I can. The Virgin Islands has an oral lit tradition descended from the West African...
I'll Google those names and see what I can come up with. If they have scholarly abstracts/articles then they will probably pop up in the searches and my...
Hello Gabon RPCVs: I was a 2001-2002 health volunteer in Akieni, near Franceville, before the Ebola outbreak sent me packing my bags early like so many others....
Book Review by Oliver Roberts http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Lifestyle/Article.aspx? id=699302 On paper, at least, it's easy to make cynical...
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