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Enjoy Life - Maybe It Isn't So Bad After All !
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    • Bwana_Brown
  • Updated By Bwana_Brown on May 28, 2008
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    • Africans Enjoying the Luapula River - Democratic Republic of Congo
    Africans Enjoying the Luapula
    River
    by Bwana_Brown
    Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I knew that I was probably having the best time of my life during those 3 years in Central Africa but, just in case, every once in a while as I walked down a street in Luanshya I would just laugh out loud and thank my lucky stars! In reality, life was not so bad for the Africans either - things were orderly and there was a great economy that kept things chugging along. This photo shows some Africans enjoying a slow 1973 ferry ride across the Luapula River on the Zaire-Zambia border. I wonder how they are doing now? Zambia's copper industry (and its economy has collapsed), AIDS is rampant in this part of Africa and I do not even want to think about what has happened to the people of Zaire. Something went badly off the rails somewhere.

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    The 'Pedicle'
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    • Bwana_Brown
  • Updated By Bwana_Brown on October 12, 2008
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    • Ferries Meet on the Luapula - Democratic Republic of Congo
    Ferries Meet on the Luapula
    by Bwana_Brown
    The transit road across the Pedicle was used mostly by the locals - not a big tourist area. This strangely-shaped piece of Zaire that stuck down into Zambia was more of a nuisance than anything when trying to get from the Copperbelt towns to the northeastern part of Zambia. However, it was always interesting to see what things were like as we passed through this infrequently visited country! Photo of me on one of the Luapula River ferry crossings (with another ferry headed in the other direction in the background).

    The strange shape of the Pedicle actually arises from the fact that when the country was run as a Belgian colony, the Belgians discovered the large extent of the underground copper deposits in this part of Africa before the British in adjoining Zambia (Northern Rhodesia then) did. As a result, they were able to get the British to agree to the strange boundary shape while unknowingly giving the Congo access to the underground riches! Just over the border I was living and working in what is Zambia's 'Copperbelt Province' that had 5 or 6 mines in action.

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    Is there any beaten one?? Stay...
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  • By cosmopolit on August 26, 2002
  • Democratic Republic of Congo Page by cosmopolit
    • Is there any beaten one?? Stay out of war zones is my advise.

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    another view of eastern congo
    fabrice
  • By fabrice on August 25, 2002
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    • Democratic Republic of Congo Off the Beaten Path
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  • By jacq4u2 on August 25, 2002
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  • By jacq4u2 on August 25, 2002
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  • By jacq4u2 on August 25, 2002
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    a palm oil factory in mokamo...
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  • Updated By fabrice on August 25, 2002
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    • Democratic Republic of Congo Off the Beaten Path
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    a palm oil factory in mokamo on the river lukula

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    my friend took me on a trip on...
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  • By jacq4u2 on August 25, 2002
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    • Democratic Republic of Congo Off the Beaten Path
    by jacq4u2
    my friend took me on a trip on ' le fleuve ' ( the river) , for a afternoon on the banks

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    This IS the beaten path
    cloudsitter
  • By cloudsitter on July 17, 2004
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    • The beaten path nearly beat us - Democratic Republic of Congo
    The beaten path nearly beat us
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    see title

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