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...
NYT-Feb 20, 2008 ACCRA, Ghana — Traveling across Africa this week, President Bush has been a little like Santa Claus, a benevolent figure from another...
'Is that a jumbo on the runway?" I asked an expat in the passport queue next to me. We both squinted. It was! I had just arrived at Gamba Airport in Gabon and...
By Sebastien Berger in Johannesburg, Telegraph, 29/02/2008 France is to stop sending military aid to governments in its former African colonies, president...
Hi Don, I'll be finalizing the April issue of the newsletter in a few weeks. I've pasted in your fete announcement. Do you have any more information to add? ...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AFP) — Gabon reacted with fury and threatened diplomatic retribution on Wednesday after French state television broadcast a report on...
Watch the original video from France 2, which someone was gracious enough to post to YouTube, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsVjE04ZGs&feature=related ...
A baby gorilla rejected by its mother is being hand-reared by zookeepers ahead of a possible return to the wild in her native African homeland. Tia is being...
Bob, Maybe it would be more prudent to keep Tia away from the center of ebola infection, habitat destruction and the bushmeat trade. Perhaps a townhouse in...
Africa is the continent hardest hit by climate change and already struggles to feed its people. But a research centre in Cotonou, Benin, is developing a new...
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h1EgGRMIKjvt1iCdnB-kbrO4fpxw LIBREVILLE (AFP) — Pre-election ritual killings in Gabon are on the rise, carried out by...
Might anyone out there have a copy of this Gabonese film from 2001? It seems like I must have chewed too much iboga at the time, looking back, but I clearly...
Hello El Hadj Moussa, Let me run your question in the July issue of the Gabon Letter. The film does sound interesting. Ca va? Darcy Meijer Editor, Gabon Letter...
If you get a copy, please let us know. http://translate.google.com/translate? hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.afrik.com/article4010.html&sa=X&oi=translate&re ...
April 2008 Dear Friends: I'd like to take another opportunity to invite you to the Friends of Gabon Summer Fete 2008 which I will be hosting on St. Croix,...
