Austerio Alonso
Co-founder of Kumakonda. Passionate of Africa. Specialist in the design, preparation and realization of expeditions in Africa. Content creator.
Latest posts from Austerio Alonso
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The Traditional Kulamba Ceremony of the Chewa people of Zambia
The Traditional Kulamba Ceremony is the most important cultural event for the Chewa people of Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, taking place annually on the last Saturday in August in Katete,…
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Likumbi Lya Mize, Zambian ceremonies
Likumbi Lya Mize ceremony of the Luvale people of Zambia The Likumbi Lya Mize ceremony is a series of ceremonies held by the Luvale people of northern Zambia in honour…
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Trip to Casamance in Senegal, culture and dance of the Diola people
Trip to Casamance in Senegal, culture and dance of the Diola people Trip to Casamance in Senegal with Mara Bagossi to discover the culture and dance of the Diola people.…
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Sallah Durbar Festival in Kano, the magnificent celebration in Northern Nigeria
Back home after the Sallah Durbar Festival in Kano… Ranka ya Dede! (May you live long!) shouts the people and the nobility as the emir passes through the streets of…
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Sharo Ceremony, the scars of Fulani love in Nigeria
Sharo fulani ceremony in northern Nigeria We travelled to northern Nigeria to attend a Sharo or Shadi Fulani ceremony. There, in a remote village in Jigawa State on the border…
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Ilha da Baía dos Tigres and Foz do Cunene, trip to the southern Angola
Ilha dos Tigres and Foz do Cunene A few days ago we travelled to the desert coast of the Namib in southern Angola (March 2024) for one of the most spectacular…
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Bogolán, the language of textiles
Bogolan, Mali’s earthenware textiles Bogolan, ‘mud textiles’ in the Bambara language, is the type of dyeing technique that artists in Mali have used for centuries on hand-woven textiles. Ancestral handicraft…
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Kankurang, the Mandinka initiation rite in West Africa
Kankurang, Mandinka initiation rite in West Africa Kankurang, a Mandinka initiation rite practised mainly in Senegal, Gambia and Guinea Bissau. We delve into this initiatory world with Judit Torrent Navarro.…
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Lomako – Yokokala Wildlife Reserve in DR Congo
Created in 2006, the Lomaoko-Yokokala Reserve is a protected area with an area of 3,625 km² (slightly larger than Luxembourg) and is situated between the Lomako and Yokokala rivers in…
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Loango National Park in Gabon
Loango National Park in Gabon: Jungle, Beaches, and Wildlife Loango National Park, on Gabon’s Atlantic coast, brings together within a single area some of the most spectacular landscapes of Equatorial…
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Trip to Equatorial Guinea, reserved matter
A trip to Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most opaque countries
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Lekedi Park in Gabon, observation of mandrills
Lekedi Park in Gabon offers the opportunity to get up close and photograph two large troops of wild but habituated mandrills.