Monthly Archives: October 2007

On the Road to the Lomami

Category: About the project, Places, people
Date: October 27th 2007
By: admin

Paka was ready to go as soon as he heard about the Lomami “adventure”
Paka was so eager to join John and Ashley on the Lomami River that he sent his father, Nobirabo, to talk to me when I was in the Ituri Forest at Epulu (Okapi Faunal Reserve) earlier this month. I’ve known Nobirabo [...]

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The Congo Free State: Profit from Plunder on the Lomami

Category: About the project, Places, Threats, people
Date: October 14th 2007
By: admin

This village along the Lomami must look much as they did a century ago.
The Belgians fought the Arabs from 1892 -1894 to end slavery in the Congo. They beat the Arabs. Did that end slavery in Congo?
My American elementary school definition of slaves was “people who are bought and sold” to [...]

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Blood Ivory and Lomami Slave Wars : 1892-1894

Category: Places, people, wildlife
Date: October 5th 2007
By: admin

Ivory found in the Ituri Forest in the early 1990s. Paulin Tshikaya, over 6 feet tall, and warden of Garamba National Park is in the center.

All hell broke loose on the Lomami River during the 1890s.
It began east of the Lualaba in the 1860s, with the rise of the Arab ivory trade. Tippo [...]

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