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African forest buffalo Syncerus nanus nanus

Observed by flint_jack, CC BY-NC

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Bwiti dancers, Gabon, by Yoan Michel Mboussou

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Pictorial Map of Gabon

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Is it too late to join or ?? Gabonese Highschool Girl Miku 🇬🇦 (took the whole day) by aka_toritsuka

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Ivindo National Park, Gabon

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Town scene in Libreville, Gabon

French vintage postcard

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♛GLOW♛

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American actor Samuel L. Jackson traces his origins back to the Bantu tribe of Gabon

The Bantu people are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.

He was welcomed as a lost son by the Benga people and was inducted into the Benga tribe, with rare and unprecedented access to secret ceremonies and local customs.

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National animal of Gabon 🇬🇦

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Congo sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii gratus

Observed by gregoiredubois, CC BY-NC

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Fang Bwiti initiate, Gabon, by Laurent Sazy

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Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint

Ministry of foreign affairs forced to say sorry to Canada, Gabon and Burkina Faso embassies after incident

Brazil’s ministry of foreign affairs has been forced to apologise to the embassies of Canada, Gabon and Burkina Faso after three diplomats’ teenage children – all of whom are Black – were searched at gunpoint by police officers.

The incident emerged when the mother of a Brazilian boy in the group posted a security camera video online, prompting outrage – but also a weary recognition that such experiences are all too typical for Black youths in Rio de Janeiro.

The three diplomats’ children were in Rio for a five-day holiday with a white Brazilian friend, celebrating the end of the school year. All attend the same school in Brasília, where they live. It was their first trip without their parents.

Late Wednesday, they were returning from a day at the beach and were about to enter a building in the wealthy neighbourhood of Ipanema when a military police patrol car drew up. Two officers jumped out, ordered the boys to face the wall and searched them at gunpoint.

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Gabonese Miku ✏️☝🏾 by le_Jin_Sama

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