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Bori Hausa ceremony: animist practices in Niger
Niger is a diamond in the rough. With an enormous cultural heritage and very friendly people. We fell in love with it without a doubt. Among its cultural riches, we…
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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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A curious maternity leave in Congo (DRC)
On the 2023 Jungle Kongo Expedition trip, Austerio Alonso and the other travellers had the good fortune to witness a ceremony to mark the end of the Ekonda pygmies’ “maternity…
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Pende Tribe, the people of the great initiations (DRC)
We travel to the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of the Pende tribe. This is one of the ethnic groups that attracts us the most because…
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The Kuba Kingdom of Congo and its fantastic past
We like to include a strong cultural component in our trips. For example, the Kuba kingdom of the Congo, an ancient and powerful civilisation whose descendants still preserve some of…
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Makoko, community and resistance in gigantic Lagos (Nigeria)
Makoko is like an island in the chaos of the big city. It is a floating neighbourhood and we are in the largest city in Africa. Its name, by the…
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Dancing to the sound of Afrobeat in Lagos, Nigeria
To be recognised as the father of a musical style is no small matter. In Lagos, the economic centre of Nigeria, they can boast about it. For this reason, and…
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Benin City and Edo culture, pure Nigerian history
In the Africa Overland expedition we did in Kumakonda between March and April 2023, we knew that Nigeria was not going to make it easy for us, but we also…
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The Wodaabe of Chad: origins, symbols and relationships in Gerewol
On our Kumakonda trips, we’ve had many encounters with the Wodaabe of Chad, and we even travel to their Gerewol festival every year. For us, this nomadic people—part of the…
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Discovering the Dozo hunters, an esoteric and powerful brotherhood of the Malinké Country
Among the enormous variety of worldviews that exist in West Africa today, we can find brotherhoods or confraternities. These are more or less secret societies with a strong esoteric, spiritual…
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Nomads of Lake Chad: Peoples, History, and Ways of Life
Human presence at Lake Chad dates back thousands of years, as evidenced by the archaeological remains found in the region. Later, during what we know as the Middle Ages, the…
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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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