Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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FILM: “Tu seras mon Allié” (Dir. Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam, 2012)
Cameroonian director Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam’s most recent short film follows the story of Domé, a 35 year old woman from Gabon played by actress Bwanga Pilipili, who is stopped at the airport in Brussels, Belgium, due to discrepancies with her paperwork.
Domé then faces a long and grueling ordeal in the form of an interrogation by Belgian airport officials, unsure of whether or not she’ll realize her dream of entering the European country.
The English translation of the film’s title is ‘You Will Be My Ally’.
Libreville, Gabon
Boat on Ogooue River at Sunset , Gabon
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This mask is worn in masquerades during funeral celebrations.
The white color, a genderless attribute, signifies peace, the deities, the spirits of the dead, and the afterlife. The domed forehead, high cheek bones, delicately etched eyes, high arched eyebrows, beautiful coiffure, and streamlined chin all represent feminine beauty of the Punu people.
The scarification arranged in a lozenge on the forehead and the the hair style similar to a bivalve shell are also feminine attributes. It is said that the scarification has sexual meaning, an argument that supports that these masks are female representations. Those without scarification are said to be male.
The lozenge generally is made up of nine fish scales.
To the Punu people, the number nine in multiples of three has symbolic meaning, recurring in many rituals and ceremonies.
A dancer wears this mask, representing the spirit of a female ancestor, and a costume covering his entire body made of skins and raffia. The dancer tilts this mask forward and preforms on the stilts, carrying a whip of dried grasses in each hand.
As this dancer towers over his spectators, he is said to be dancing between the living world and the world of the ancestors.
Punu masks represent the idealized beauty of Punu women, and should only be carved by Punu men.
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En train, arrivée à Franceville! by huguesn on Flickr.
A train arriving in Franceville, Gabon.
A young woman’s hair is styled in traditional “corn rows” at a salon in Libreville, Gabon.
1980
Members of the women’s armed guards contingent at a Presidential ceremony in Libreville, Gabon.
1984
GABON. 1984. A young man rests on a boat cruising up the Ogooue River.
Last week-end, I found these old snaps of my grand-parents. Love love love !
Beautiful photos!
The latest episode of What’s Up Africa!
Host Ikenna fills us in some serious violent racism against African stall owners in Greece, badass Gabonese-Chinese movie star and martial artist Luc Bendza, and Yasiin Bey skillfully playing an mbira whilst delivering some spoken word poetry.
Happy Independence Day to all of our readers from Gabon!
The central-west African country gained independence from France on August 17, 1960.
The earliest inhabitants of the area were Pygmy peoples but various Bantu peoples are known to have immigrated to the area beginning in the 14th century.
Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century named the country after the Portuguese word gabão, a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo River estuary. The coast subsequently became a center of the slave trade with Dutch, English, and French traders arriving in the 16th century.
France assumed the status of protector by signing treaties with Gabonese coastal chiefs in 1839 and 1841.
In 1849, the French captured a slave ship and released the passengers at the mouth of the Komo; The slaves named their settlement Libreville, French for “free town”.
In 1910 Gabon became one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa, a federation that survived until 1959.
A man rows through Kongou Falls in Ivindo National Park, Gabon
