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2. Thanks so much for this wonderful "travelogue" of the Continent...
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 05:51 PM
Sep 2023

the second largest on the planet. Your writing and descriptions of the countries, their histories and wealth/resources is so evocative of imagery as well as educational.

My earliest memories of the aftermath of the independence strugglesin the '60s was hearing about assassination of Patrice Lumumba of the Congo (it later came out the CIA was involved as were Belgian actors).

That made me want to know more and eventually I made it to the Continent myself in the late '70s to Cameroon and then later to Senegal and The Gambia. There was still much European colonial influence in the countries and products there...raw materials were stripped from the countries still and finished products shipped back for consumption, a second bite out of the nation's economies. Even some of the currencies still had European images on them.

I still remember the early morning calls to worhip from loudspeakers on the mosques. And being a male I also remember the beautiful African women in their off-the-shoulder, wrap dresses of African fabrics on the streets of Dakar.

There was also the Maison de enslaves and it's door to nowhere which once looking out over the Atlantic awaiting slave ships to dock next to it. It's still there.

I could go on with other memories, but again, thanks for your post on the countries of the Continent.

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