#oubangui

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On Haiti's day of ancestral remembrance, one of my siblings shared this letter with us. It is a monumental letter; it has not been often that Africa has collectively spoken to and about Haiti. It's a sad and beautiful love letter, and speaks some really deep truths. They are right; Haiti is dying right now and it is past time that the international community take responsibility for what hundreds of years of international interference has wrought. I hope this is the impetus for action because the reality of Haiti right now is worse than can accurately be described.

Below is an English translation of the above linked article.

EMBARGO: January 1 , 2023

And especially my body as well as my soul,

be careful not to cross your arms

in the sterile attitude of the spectator,

because life is not a spectacle,

because a sea of ​​​​pains is not a proscenium,

because a a screaming man is not a dancing bear.

Aimé Césaire, Excerpt from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (1939).

Captured in the valleys once trodden by Afarensis, or from Zanzibar, Madagascar, Gorée, El Mina, Bimbia, Benguela, Luanda, Cabinda, savannahs and forests, Ségou, Benin, Sokoto, the banks of the Congo or Oubangui, or along other great rivers, Ogooué, Casamance, Niger, Sanaga, having left the cosmogony that still binds them today to the mother of all continents, enslaved Africans arrived centuries ago in the Americas . In the worst forced migration of all time, the transatlantic slave trade took some of these men, women and children to Kiskeya, also known as Hispaniola, the island now shared by Haiti and the Republic Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea.

A land immersed in African traditions, Haiti, the "Pearl of the Antilles" or "Mountain Country" in the Taino language, is the nation where black slaves have shown the greatest resilience.

On August 14, 1791 in the forest of Bois Caïman, the voodoo priest Dutty Boukman organized a ceremony with the support of the priestess Cécile Fatiman, a "mambo" who performed sacrifices. On that memorable stormy night, the enslaved participants solemnly swore that servitude would be doomed, taking an oath to fight or die. They will later obey the orders of Toussaint Louverture in the revolt orchestrated by the remarkable leader. His epic – rare, if not unique – victory over one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity continues to be recounted by many. Toussaint, a Caribbean island strategist and visionary, defeated the stubborn Napoleon, an island native from Corsica. This historic victory has been sung by great poets like Aimé Césaire.

On January 1, 2023, the first black republic celebrates the 219th anniversary of its glorious independence. However, the Pearl of the Antilles is dying.

Haiti was forced to pay a ransom to France as compensation to French slave owners for lost property, or else slavery would be reimposed and Haiti invaded. In May 2022, The New York Times published a well-researched series of articles titled “The Ransom: Haiti Lost Billions” [ The Ransom: Haiti Lost Billions], which recounts this perfidy. Port-au-Prince has so far paid up to $115 billion to France, a staggering sum for Haiti, a ransom that has left the poor country heavily indebted. Poor governance, corruption and invasions add to an already unbearable burden for the Haitian people. In addition, the American military occupation, from 1915 to 1934, had a large New York bank as its main financial backer. Ultimately, all of these factors could only result in a failed state fueled for many decades by the adrenaline of violence and the jolts of anarchy and chaos. The ravages of earthquakes, massive deforestation and the exile of its citizens have worsened the plight of Haiti.

Tormented and neglected, installed in instability, Haiti seems close to shipwreck. The security situation is dire. Famine affects nearly five million people. Shortly after the 2010 earthquake, a cholera epidemic imported by UN peacekeepers broke out in Haiti after no case had been detected there for more than a century. In the face of these accusations, the then United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, had the courage and integrity to issue a formal apology. Today, the resurgence of cholera is causing more deaths. On December 21, 2022, addressing the Security Council, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said that “Haiti finds itself in a deepening crisis of a magnitude and unprecedented complexity."

One of the biggest challenges is that much of Port-au-Prince – a capital of nearly 3 million people – is in the hands of gangs. Their names are taken from urban tragedies – 400 Mawazos , Chen mechan , Fire-eaters… . The list of gang leaders includes Barbecue, Gaspiyai… . Their only motivation seems to be financial and criminal. The gangs have taken the country hostage: they kill; they rape; they are flying. Sexual violence is the breeding ground for a future in which society may lack cohesion.

The police are either overwhelmed or complicit. The Haitian army, that not-so-distant Macoute memory, was dismantled by the international community in the 1990s. Demobilized soldiers were never properly reintegrated into society. The judicial system is moribund. To date, the international community has been able to fund less than 20% of Haiti's current humanitarian needs, while elsewhere in the world billions of dollars are generously flowing in to alleviate other humanitarian crises.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is caught in a recurring nightmare, as if the country relives the adventures told in " The Comedians ", a masterpiece published by Graham Greene in 1966. The novel, located under the reign of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his Tontons Macoutes, explores the political repression and terrorism that are rampant in Haiti, and particularly in Port-au-Prince.

However, Haiti should not be viewed solely as a tragic and brutal story. The country of Makandal, Toussaint and Dessalines is endowed with magnificent creativity and sustained by remarkable hope. Haiti has always been culturally brilliant and intellectually stimulating.

The iconic Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince once attracted bands such as the Rolling Stones. Afterwards, hellish processions of the Ra-Ra by the "root music" group RAM invaded the hotel. Haiti is also the country of the talented musician Wycleff Jean; the Tabou Combo group; or even the unforgettable Jean Gesner Henry, alias Coupé Cloué or “the African”, the king of kompa mamba, a catchy musical style widespread throughout the world. Writers, playwrights, filmmakers, poets, artists, educators, musicians and artisans abound. The stunning beauty of the countryside is praised in the books of Haitian neurologist, novelist and poet Jean Métellus (1937 – 2014), such as in Jacmel at Dusk. Christophe, tragic king, is immortalized in a masterpiece by Aimé Césaire, the literary giant of neighboring Martinique. For more than a century, Haiti has also given birth to magnificent authors and poets: Joseph Anténor Firmin, Louis Joseph Janvier, Justin Lhérisson, Jean-Price Mars, Félix Morisseau-Leroy, Charles Moravia, Frankétienne, Anthony Phelps, Dany Laferrière , Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Edwige Danticat, René Depestre… and many others.

The biggest tragedies, like the 2010 earthquake, certainly killed and maimed many people, destroying infrastructure. But these dramas have not shaken the soul of this astonishing and endearing country. Like the intrepid Haitian woman, Haiti remains surprisingly upright, and its culture vibrant.

The international community, sub-regional and regional organizations, academics, media, communicators, the private sector, the Haitian comprador bourgeoisie: all have a responsibility towards Haiti. It's not an easy conversation. Migration issues are a hot topic in most Western countries. In September 2021, images of American guards on horseback armed with whips pushing back Haitian migrants at the border with Mexico caused a stir around the world. But these whiplashes from the time of the slave trade cannot rewrite the heroic history that Haitians wrote with their blood, sweat, tears and courage. Haiti is the only slave-led military uprising that was able to overthrow a slave-holding colonial power.

The international community was called upon to step in and fight the gangs. Just as the corrugated iron walls of Haiti's slums will not stop stray bullets, our physical estrangement from Haiti will not prevent tragedy from piercing our souls and our comfort zones. In light of past failures, one can honestly wonder if foreign military intervention in Haiti would provide a lasting solution. Either way, inertia is not an option. Any intervention must revisit history and learn from it, prioritize security, actively promote and support justice while helping to build trust and good governance. The situation must be addressed as a whole, without delay.

What the international community will or will not do is of crucial importance. Nevertheless, we support Haitian citizens who want an end to anarchy and violence, who want justice. To measure the strength and value of a family, one must observe the solidarity with which it protects the most vulnerable of its members. The first black republic, perhaps the most fragile of the family of Nations, lacks food, drinking water, fuel, peace, justice.

We issue this urgent call: let us act now, with a new and genuine benevolence, whatever the risks, and without individual geopolitical intentions. Haitian populations are in danger. History will not be kind to those who remain inactive or who choose to look elsewhere.

It would be non-assistance to a people in danger.

It is difficult to envisage the resolution of this Gordian knot without outside intervention. The Haitian people will only be able to vote and freely choose their leaders if there is security.

A member of the family of nations is held hostage by the contours of historic injustices, recurring bad governance and the brutality of armed gangs: the whole family must step in to free this member from the hostage takers as well as the contingencies of previous failures. Haitians would fly with with their wings towards the heights of human development, we sincerely hope so.

Sitting idly by is not an option.

So let's gather our forces for success in Haiti, and as Césaire predicted, there will be room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory .

Otherwise, we will all be guilty of not having helped this heroic people in danger.

Let us respond to the poetic exhortation of Jean Métellus. From his exile a few decades ago, his poem was a beautiful cry, “  Au pipirite chantant ”. His lament has not aged a bit. This is the plea of

“Haitian peasant who with singing pipirite,

despises memory and makes plans

He revokes the past braided by plagues and smoke

And from daybreak he tells his glory on the fresh galleries

of young shoots”

We stand with the Haitians. Let's act now. For Haiti, for humanity.

(*) Signatories:

Adama Dieng , the initiator of this forum, is a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General. He served in the UN as a former Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide and Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He is also a former board member of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA).

Macky Sall , President of Senegal, President of the African Union.

José Ramos-Horta , President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste; co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996.

Moussa Faki Mahamat , Chairperson of the African Union Commission; Former Prime Minister of Chad.

Alpha Oumar Konaré , former President of Mali; former Chairperson of the African Union Commission; former President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan , former President of Nigeria; Mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Catherine Samba-Panza, former Head of State, Central African Republic.

The Right Honorable Michaëlle Jean , former Governor General of Canada; former UNESCO special envoy to support reconstruction efforts in Haiti; former Chancellor of the University of Ottawa; former Secretary General of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF).

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka , former Vice-President of South Africa; former Executive Director of UN Women; Former Co-Chair of the United Nations Descendant Senior Officials Group (UNSAG).

Epsy Alejandra Campbell Barr , former Vice President of Costa Rica; President of the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent.

Graça Machel , President of the Board of the Graça Machel Foundation ( Graça Machel Trust ).

Miguel Ángel Moratinos , former High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations; former Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE; former Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

Sir Dennis Byron , former President of the Caribbean Court of Justice; former President of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute ; former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR); Chairman of the United Nations Internal Justice Council.

Serge Letchimy, President of the Executive Council of Martinique and former member of the French National Assembly.

Mujahid Alam (Retired General), Principal of Lawrence College , Ghora Gali, Murree, Pakistan.

Sonia Maria Barbosa Dias , Education Specialist, São Paulo, Brazil.

Mbaranga Gasarabwe , former Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA); former United Nations Resident Coordinator in Mali; former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne , Philosopher; Director of the Institute of African Studies and Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University.

Andrew Thompson , Professor of World Imperial History at Oxford University and Full Professor at Nuffield College , Oxford.

Othman Mohamed , former Chief Justice of Tanzania and Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Dag Hammarskjöld.

Amadou Lamine Sall , Winner of the 2018 edition of the Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry; Winner in 1991 of the Prize for the influence of French language and literature, awarded by the French Academy.

Sheila Walker, Ph.D. , Author; Cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker; Executive Director of Afrodiaspora, Inc.

Jean-Victor Nkolo , former spokesperson for three Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly; Worked in ten UN peacekeeping operations, including in Haiti.

Euzhan Palcy , Director, screenwriter and film producer (Martinique, France).

Bacre Waly Ndiaye , Lawyer at the Bar of Senegal; Former member of the Truth and Justice Commission in Haiti.

Willem Alves Dias , Film Editor, Brazil.

René Lake, Journalist and Expert in international development.

Doudou Diène, Senegalese lawyer; former UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.

Ben Kioko , Judge, former Vice-President of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Aver-Dieng Ndaté , Lawyer at the Geneva Bar, Vice-President of the African Peace Conference.

Akere Tabeng Muna , Lawyer and International Legal Consultant on Governance and Anti-Corruption; former President of the Pan-African Lawyers Union; former President of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union (ECOSOCC); former Chair of the Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder-Kone , aka CCH Pounder , Actress and philanthropist; Art collector; HIV/AIDS activist; co-founder of the Boribana museum in Dakar.

[writer59january13]

While attempting going to sleep. after midnight..

December 27th, 2023, the missus pounded mine posterior (she played paddywhack on me blimey buttucks) not only causing contusion, but flaying percussive rumpus, where the wild things are found yours truly feeling like a cross between a bongo drum

and a Ubangi

(also spelled Ubangui, Ubanghi, or Oubangui).

Meanwhile good n plenty good vibrations (cue the Beach Boys) resonated

felt and heard round the world wide web (strongest quaking sensations

occurred upon double mattresses atop bed

within apartment unit b44 2 Highland Manor Drive),

but woody d'ya believe

drumming, flagellating and whipping gluteus maximus

spurred surging aftershock tremors

launched rocketed pecker (property yours truly).

Imagine slap happy spouse

ain't misbehavin

just being her playful (think cheeky) self

knick knack paddy whacking

give doggone husband reprieve

undeservedly thrashing, pummeling, beating fleshy derrière the living daylights buttucks long past their prime once formerly cute palm pilot size tushy,

now subjected courtesy cruel aging process wrought ugly human cellulite, nevertheless I made

feeble attempts to rear up in protest

against asinine wifely antics,

while she obviously disregarded

feebly wailing for nought me lamely uttering friggin bloody murder in vain.

Zee spouse ain't no sadomasochist,

she just thrills treating gluteus maximus (mine)

as a plaything

(think cat toying with mouse)

thwacking me fleshy behind

until derriere belonging to yours truly feels comfortably numb.

Thee aforementioned shenanigans

predominantly arise, when

wedded counterpart owns advantage,

whereby I eagerly welcome shut eye lo and behold only to experience mine hinny quickly getting smacked

after I barely shuttered these tired eyelids sneaking couple winks.

What recently began as

whimsical spur of kickstarting moment ushering tactile kibitizing

suddenly became nightly ritual, whereby this humble husband

meekly surrenders bare bottom

(actually partner with skewed enjoyment

at my expense) pulls off outer clothes plus underpants (elasticity

long since stretched out)

wallopping me bum

until flesh heavily spindled, lacerated, and bruised.

After swatting fanny until backside a deep angry red, she (the bride of twenty seven and a half years) turns me over and spanks the monkey.

[justnianiania]

Photographs of political activist, anti-colonialist and feminist, Andrée Blouin. Born in Oubangui-Chari (present-day Central African Republic), Blouin spent her childhood years in an orphanage in Brazzaville.

From SUNU Journal

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Frontière entre le Congo et la République démocratique du Congo #VueRDcongo #documentaryphotography #nuitetjour #fleuvecongo #vueKinshasa #visualstorytelling #oubangui #travelphotography #photojournalism #drcongo🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩 #brazzaville🇨🇬 #congokinshasa #congodance #congomusic #congolesebeauty (à Corniche Brazzaville) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1cF-AoFTZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Le soupir des idoles - Danny Daniel PENALI - 2021

Le soupir des idoles – Danny Daniel PENALI – 2021

Quatrième de couverture Tous les hommes de pouvoir souffrent. Et c’est ce qui pousse Sohahong à quitter l’ancien Oubangui-Chari pour le sol américain où il découvre un autre amour façonné par les bras de l’histoire. Rien ne l’aurait si éloigné de sa terre natale si ce ne fut l’image inquiétante de son ami l’Abbé Charles disparu dans un mystérieux accident d’avion. C’est la mort de ce prêtre,…

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Seen at Oubangui River, Congo Republic by @emiliponsa

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Chef des sections Confidentielle, Défense Nationale et Câblogramme - Cabinet du Gouverneur de l'Oubangui-Chari

Chef du Personnel et du Confidentiel, Direction Santé Publique au Gabon

Président du Comité Directeur de l'Association Générale des Fonctionnaires Africains. Chef de la 1re et 2e sections, Direction des Finances et du Contrôle, 4e bureau. Garde meubles (biens meubles et immeubles du Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française) et Billeteur du Palais du Gouverneur Général; de tous les Hôtels relevant du Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française; des 3 centres d'accueils et du 4e bureau

Membre Titulaire (2e) du 1er Grand Conseil du Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française (2 ans). Gestionnaire Comptable - Commis Principal Hors Classe d'Administration

Croix du Combattant Volontaire de la Résistance

Chef Adjoint et Billeteur de la 1re Subdivision des Travaux Publics de Port-Gentil au Gabon

Chef Adjoint de la 1re Subdivision des Travaux Publics des Grands Itinéraires de Dolisie au Congo-Brazzaville

Chef Adjoint de la 1re Subdivision des Travaux Publics de la Niari au Congo-Brazzaville

Chef de la 2e Subdivision des Travaux Publics de la Nyanga au Gabon

Chef de la 1re Subdivision des Travaux Publics de la Ngounié au Gabon

Surveillant Principal de 1re Classe des Travaux Publics et Ports et Rades de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française

Conseiller municipal de la commune de moyen exercice de Lambaréné. 1e Adjoint au maire de la commune de moyen exercice de Lambaréné 1958-1963. Conseiller municipal de la commune de Lambaréné. 2e Adjoint au maire de la commune de Lambaréné 1963-1966. Président de la délégation Spéciale de la commune de Lambaréné 1966-1969. Juge assesseur titulaire au tribunal du Second degré de Lambaréné. Membre du Corps municipal de la commune indigène de Poto-Poto au Congo-Brazzaville en 1944 (2 ans)

Écrivain - Interprète Principal Hors Classe d'Administration. Langues étrangères : Sangho, Banda, Mandjia, Mbaka de l'Oubangui-Chari, Kikongo, Lingala du Moyen Congo et l'Arabe du Tchad. Langue Maternelle : Myènè. Langue Officielle : Français

1940 Adhésion à France libre : Afrique Équatoriale Française. 1914 Mobilisation Militaire : Campagne du Cameroun

Officier de la Légion d'Honneur. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. Grand Officier de l'Étoile Équatoriale. Commandeur de l'Étoile Équatoriale. Officier du Nichan Iftikhar. Chevalier du Nichan Iftikhar. Officier du Nichan el Anouar. Chevalier du Nichan el Anouar. Officier de l'Étoile Noire du Bénin [Bronze, Argent et Vermeil] - Chevalier de l'Étoile Noire du Bénin. Officier du Mérite Centrafricain. Chevalier du Mérite Centrafricain

Médaille de la Résistance. Médaille d'Honneur des Épidémies - 1918. - Médaille d'Honneur pour Acte de Courage et Dévouement [Vermeil] - Médaille d'Honneur du Ministère des Outre-mer [Argent] - Médaille d'Outre-mer avec agrafes : A.E.F. et Cameroun

Moniteur des écoles primaires Supérieures de Bambari, Fort-Sibut, Yalinga et Bossangoa. Ex-agent de la Compagnie Maritime des Chargeurs Réunis à Libreville au Gabon - Connaissances accessoires : Télégraphie morse et travaux de routes automobiles

Quatre Lettres de félicitations du Gouverneur de l'Oubangui-Chari pour brillants états de services durant 25 années en Oubangui-Chari au sujet des Travaux rendus à l'Enseignement : création des écoles de Bambari, le 1.9.1916. Celle-ci érigée depuis en école Supérieure du Territoire, Fort-Sibut, Yalinga et Bossangoa; de routes accessibles aux automobiles dans les départements de la Ouaka, Kémo-Gribingui, Haute Kotto et Basse Kotto, années 1918 et 1919; cultures vivrières et industrielles et du dénombrement de la population

Un Témoignage Officiel de Satisfaction du Gouverneur Général de l'Afrique Équatoriale Française

Une Lettre de félicitation de L'intérieur de SAINT SAUVEUR, Chef de la Subdivision des Travaux Publics de Port-Gentil au Gabon, Ingénieur des Travaux Publics

Monsieur Georges Marie André AUNOUVIET - Millitaire, Résistant, Homme d'État Français, Écrivain & Linguiste [23.10.1895 - 27.11.1980]

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African Clothing | African Wedding Clothing | African Prints Dresses

For within the past eight years Tim, in his efforts to urge his trans-Africa safari company established, has continually found himself slap within the middle of whichever juicy African conflict seems to be simmering at that specific moment.

Tim led the primary expedition to urge through the Congo safely after the Simba War, and when his convoy of battered Land Rovers received the Oubangui river which separates the Congo from the Central African Republic they found both banks swarming with trigger-happy African troops. the 2 countries were ready for war over a sudden disagreement on the longer term shape of "African Unity."

Tim's knowledge of Swahili saved them here. He borrowed a native canoe, paddled across the river to confront the astounded Congolese troops, and diplomatically persuaded them to permit the ferry across the river to gather the remainder or his convoy.

Today the Siafu Safari Company may be a thriving business. it's named after the Siafu ant which stops for nothing. If it cannot go round, over or under an obstacle it'll simply eat its way through it. the first four battered Land Rovers are now replaced by whole fleets of shiny new vehicles, and therefore the routes between London and Nairobi are carefully planned. Today the Siafu expeditions crossing Africa know that they're going to reach their destinations, but this wasn't always so.

Tim was born and raised on his father's farm in Kenya until independence forced him to immigrate to South Africa . Seven years ago, with car salesman Peter Hooper and one short wheel base Land Rover, Tim left Durban on the beginning of what was to become a 20,000 mile journey through a turbulent new Africa. The trip was to require sixteen painful and dangerous months, and to fill Tim's mind with the wild idea of running overland safaris on a billboard basis.

To undergo the newly independent countries of Libya, Tanzania and Kenya, Tim and Peter had to see every item of their equipment and clothing and take away all traces of South African origin.

Their real difficulties began once they tried to go away Kenya. the most roads into Ethiopia had all been closed thanks to bandits raiding across the border, the southern Sudan was also closed, and to the west the Congo was still a bloody battlefield contested by mercenaries and Simba rebels.

Finally they managed to seek out one border post into Ethiopia that was open at Kalem, near Lake Rudolph. From here it took them 42 days of grueling, sweating, back-breaking work to hide 170 miles of the foulest roads in Africa. They unloaded their Land Rover thousand times to haul it through mud holes as large because the vehicle itself, or worked like slaves to widen tracks that had been intended for nothing larger than camels.

In Addis Ababa they were refused visas to cross the Sudan: but instead of make a return journey over those awful Ethiopian roads they chose to continue north without visas. They left Ethiopia, by-passed the Sudanese border post by driving through the desert, then made a frantic non-stop dash along the Red Sea coast for Egypt.

They almost made it, but their outdated map had misplaced the position of the northern frontier by ten vital miles.

african fashion African print masks

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Description: Cavaliers moundangs (Album de la Mission Moll, 1905-1907, Congo, Oubangui-Chari, Tchad, Cameroun) 

Date: between 1905 and 1907 

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France 

Author: Eugène Brussaux ou Etienne Muston 

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On a boat! 

[thekcmcus]

YAKOVLEV Aleksandr Evgenievich (1887-1938)   

 Sara, Sara race, Ouandja, 1925,   

Banda accroupi, Ialinga (Oubangui-Chari) Squatting Banda, Ialinga (Oubangui-Chari)

Russian Africanism

[margauxdiary]

Coucher de soleil sur les bords du fleuve Oubangui 😍 #aboutlastnight (at Oubangui River) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc-IcvDOJO6oaowdKhbaO5vG4_TwhX3Pux_7cA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gerardgaltier]

Il y a cinquante ans le Larzac (3ºépisode) : Le coup de goupillon de l’évêque de Rodez

Il y a cinquante ans le #Larzac (3º épisode) : Le coup de goupillon de l’évêque de #Rodez (le feuilleton de Gérard Galtier)

Lors de cette marche tranquille jusqu’à La Cavalerie Guy Tarlier ne chantait pas, lui non plus, l’Internationale. Engagé volontaire à vingt ans, capitaine en 1953 en Oubangui-Chari, il avait été démobilisé sur place en 1958, à l’heure de l’indépendance de la République Centre Africaine. Aussitôt, il s’était lancé sur place, dans une plantation de café. Originaire du Pas-de-Calais, il avait…

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Stop aux rumeurs et à la désinformation en Centrafrique

Stop aux rumeurs et à la désinformation en Centrafrique

Fridolin NGOULOU, Directeur du site/Oubangui Médias, dit #StopATènè= Stop aux rumeurs et à la désinformation. Merci de partager en soutien à la campagne contre la désinformation en République centrafricaine.

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N'Gbaka, Mongala / Ba'Ngala peoples (It could be from Azande peoples.) Early XXth or earlier. Haut-Congo, Haut-Uélé, Ubangui. Wood covered of red pigment. 72cm. Former colonial collection in Seneffe / Belgium until 2015. info@6clic.be #maternityfigure #artpremiers #arttribal #tribalartlondon #tribalart #artspremiers #artethnique #etnic #zandefigure #mongala #bangala #hautcongo #hautuele #ubangui #oubangui #bruneaf #brafaartfair #brafa #brusselsartfair #artafricain #tefaf #tefafmaastricht #bourgognetribalshow #africanartgallery #africanart #congoculture #ituri #tribalarts #tribalartmagazine #tribalartmuseum