Alison Jolly was an anthropologist who specialized in lemurs. This put her in a unique position to study the very different groups of people in Madagascar, forming the centerpiece of Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings With Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar. She made repeated trips over a period of almost 40 years for… [Read More]
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Tanzania: Sad Moment
The Africa, One Country at a Time project continues with a post on Tanzania. Tanzania is a bright spot, a welcome change from looking at a string of nations with real problems. I was looking for movies about Tanzania and came across GLM, a Web site all about movies in Tanzania and Burundi. It has… [Read More]
Burundi: Life After Violence
After the 2013 Blogathon, I decided that I would learn something about each country in Africa and blog about it. I figured I’d be able to do one a week. Well, it’s two years in, and I’m about two-thirds of the way through the continent. Burundi was a hard nation to do. I started by… [Read More]
The Republic of the Congo: Not the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The first thing you need to know is that the Republic of the Congo is not its larger neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It seems obvious, but the similarities of the names makes it hard to do research. I thought I had found a book about the Republic of the Congo, but it… [Read More]
Gabon: “Tropic Moon” by Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon was a Belgian writer best known for his detective stories. He wrote literary novels, too, like this one published in 1933. It’s about a young French man, Joseph Timar, who goes to Gabon to take a position with a French company operating there. He finds himself in a world where there are three… [Read More]
