Fetish,
Bateke, Congo-Brazzaville, wood and resin, ht 29cm.
"Many took to the streets demanding that the council of ministers reverse the decision stopping the construction of the Pibor-Girkidi road," Pibor resident John
Bateke told Sudan Tribune by phone.
Hidden cameras planted as part of a chimpanzee study in southeastern Gabon's
Bateke Plateau have captured on tape a single male lion three times since January, said Dr.
Largest groups are Bacongo, Vili,
Bateke, M'Bochi, and Sangha.
Meanwhile, in neighbouring DR Congo, a small community at Ibi village, located on the
Bateke Plateau, approximately 150km from the capital Kinshasa, is now the DR Congo's first Clean Development Mechanism project approved and registered under the Kyoto Protocol.
Um contra-exemplo que nos vem tambem da Africa central e o ficus: da mesma forma que os Bakongo, os
Bateke consideravam o Ficus ssp., chamado nsanda entre eles, o coracao da aldeia, embaixo do qual se colocavam os "fetiches", sendo seu tronco o suporte dos espiritos protetores da aldeia.
(28) Todavia, o Manicongo controlava totalmente as rotas de comercio (que iam do norte ao sul do rio Zaire) e a cobranca de tributos das varias provincias que se localizavam no planalto de Benguela aos planaltos
Bateke, e do litoral Atlantico ate o rio Cuango, incluindo, ainda, a bacia do rio Inkisi.
** I have since discovered that Muffs and the 1989 WLT Puterbaugh Fellow, Edouard Glissant of Martinique, were jointly involved in the production of a livre d'artiste edition of Aime Cesaire's
Bateke (which includes four photographs by Graciela Iturbide), with Mutis providing a Spanish translation of the original French text for which Glissant wrote an introduction.