Hotel Workers

Hotel workers in Bolenge, which is a small village in the Equatorial Region of the Congo. Bolenge is near Mbandaka.

About the Congo

Established as a Belgian colony in 1908, the Republic of the Congo gained its independence in 1960, but its early years were marred by political and social instability. Read more ...

Congolese School Girls

Congolese school girls dressed in standard blue uniforms in front of a Catholic primary school in a small Congo equatorial village. They are carrying their cahiers (notebooks) and a small casserole of rice and fish.

Crocodile on the beach of the Nile River

I took this photograph in 1972 when touring Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. Standing in a 22 foot long metal boat that jutted against the beach of the Nile River, I leaned over and clicked. No digital photograph back then, it was a Kodak Instamatic camera.

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Cooking Fish and Plantains

This YouTube video shows how to cook fish (liboke) and plantains (litumba)

Congolese Fishermen

Fishermen holding a net above their dugout canoe (pirogue) on the other side of the Congo River from Bolenge, which is a small village on the Equator.

Congolese Fishermen

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