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Into the treasure rouse rapids in what is still referred to as stanley falls. navigate down stream between baskets that need tending. perched on a precarious network of wooden poles, they hoist together. the catch these days not much. so it is the second biggest falls in the congo river. ogi is a fisherman and was a guide bringing tourists to his village. since the last two wars, kisangani tourism has been pretty much nonexistent. chief of the wagenia, pierre mu sala, is said to be a direct descendant of the king who greeted stanley in the 1870s. thank him for the privilege of seeing his community. ....
[ speaking foreign language ] translator: it s a present from the chief. this is a way to welcome the delegation of cnn. the wagenia tribe made, what was in retrospect, the mistake of allowing stanley to pass. the famous explorer, of course, pretty much shot and raided his way along the historic route to the coast, before effectively jump-starting the colonial period. using stanley as administrator king leopold of belgium claimed the congo as his personal property. under leopold s reign, men women and children were tagged with numbers, separated into groups, given production quotas. ....
Its tail buried deep in africa s heart. to yoeuropeans it was a natural route to transport slaves. ivory, rubber, minerals. the commodities upon which modern-day brussels and antwerp are built. for the congolese, both before and after the belgians, it provided more basic things. water to wash, to clean your clothes in, to cook with, to drink. also fishing. since long before the expeditions of dr. livingston and henry morton stanley, the wagenia tribe has been fishing the river in unique fashion. highly coordinated and acrobatic, the wagenia dived ....
Into the treasure rouse rapids in what is still referred to as stanley falls. navigate down stream between baskets that need tending. perched on a precarious network of wooden poles, they hoist together. the catch these days not much. so it is the second biggest falls in the congo river. ogi is a fisherman and was a guide bringing tourists to his village. since the last two wars, kisangani tourism has been ....
Conrad describes it as a twisting snake with its head in the atlantic ocean and its tail buried deep in africa s heart. to europeans, it was a natural route to transport slaves, ivory, rubber, minerals. the commodities upon which modern-day brussels and antwerp are built. for the congolese, both before and after the belgians, it provided more basic things. water to wash, to clean your clothes in, to cook with, to drink. also fishing. since long before the expeditions of dr. livingston and henry morton stanley, the wagenia tribe has been fishing the river in unique fashion. highly coordinated and acrobatic, the wagenia dived ....