Gabon - School Kids on The Ogooué River

Gabon
Sur L'Ogooue - Ecolieres en pirogue
(On Ogooué - Schoolgirls in dugout)

This vintage postcard is form the Societe des Missions Evangeliques - (Evangelical Missionary Society)

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The Ogooué River (or Ogowe), some 1,200 kilometres (700 mi) long, is the principal river of Gabon in west central Africa.

Gabon - Images Gabonaises, Men Tribal Dance

Images Gabonaises (Images of Gabon)
Les haommes de la Danse (Men Dancing)

Photo: J. Trolez

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Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is located on the equator on the west coast of Central Africa.

Gabon - Woleu-Ntem, Balafon (Wooden Xylophone) Players

Region du Woleu-Ntem (Gabon)
(Regions of Woleu-Ntem, Gabon)

Joueurs de Balafond.
(Players of Balafon.)

Photo: J. Trolez

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Woleu-Ntem is one of Gabon's nine provinces. The provincial capital is Oyem.

The Balophon is a kind of wooden xylophone or percussion idiophone which plays melodic tunes and usually has between 16 to 27 keys.  It has been played in Africa since the 1300s.

Gabon - Libreville Market

Images du Gabon (Images of Gabon)
Marche a Libreville (Market in Libreville)

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Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, in west central Africa. The city is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of 2005 it had a population of 578,156.

History:
The area was inhabited by the Mpongwé tribe long before the French acquired the land in 1839. In 1846, L'Elizia, a Brazilian ship carrying slaves for sale, was captured by the French navy near Loango. The slaves were freed and founded Libreville (French for "Freetown") in 1848.