My Life in Gabon🇬🇦/3

Hello everyone! it is 2022 and I am back with my third post on My Life in my Little Town Libreville. You know how it is to live in a small city in Africa. My goal is to make you discover a little bit of my world. A a little bit of another side of the world from yours. Libreville if you read my old post on Gabon is the capital city. We are on the coast and Libreville meaning Freetown in English has a long story on slavery and abolition. The ship named Elizia was coming back and forth from Brazil. It carried many slaves from Africa which later was captured released. Those slaves who later on founded Libreville. The land of those who became "free". I don't know which type of freedom it was but...they said they were free but still doing some hard work under colonisation... like really bad and people were dying doing it and most of the times...Threatened and...ok I stop right here. I won't go into the reflexion and History book. I guess that was the "freedom" they gave to my ancestors. Long story short the ancestors lived here then later on my grandparents, my parents, me and now my son. We are living here in Libreville. Libreville and Port-Gentil are the main cities of Gabon and Gabon was named the last eden on earth. Some people asked: "What?! Why?" I will tell you why later on another post but yes, Gabon was named the last Eden on earth. Do not look at Libreville but at the country itself and you will understand why. Just know that Gabon is crossed by the equator ( you know, that imaginary line that crosses our globe) for that reason we have a specific kind of weather, fauna, vegetal and landscape etc. If you know what it means you know that it is really humid and hot. Heavy rains on rainy seasons. You do not need to work the soil hard things grows fast and good. For instance, do u know these fruits below? yes you can find them in some other parts of the continent but you can find some other fruits not known everywhere.

ok we call it Atanga. it is only found in central Africa. We like it and I grew up eating them too. Tourists when they come here like to taste them as well. I got them from my garden. You can plant them at home. it is kind of a big tree. There are different type of atanga fruits. their shape are different according to the type Some ate bigger than these ones in pictures. but it is so good!!!

How do you eat them? you first boil some water, then when it is hot you turn off the fire. you put the atanga fruits inside the hot water then you cover the pot And let them be cooked for maybe an hour to make sure that they are ready. Then you put them on a plate an for some people you put a little bit of salt. Other will cook them depending on what they want to make. * * * Ok! so my life has been busy so far between my work in Libreville and my trips to Donguila (I already shared about Donguila in my previous posts) which by the the way I have a farming and agricultural project with a friend of mine. It will take so much work, patience and investment but i believe in it. If you look the green, the farming and agriculture are something that many countries are investing in my continent now. *** Libreville can be boring at times when you are new here and you do not know what to do. However, we still have some activities to do. You can still enjoy your life here. I mean a simple life. Look! It is not New York City here. We are in Libreville, the little town. My little town lol! Let me share with you some short videos as usual So you can have an idea. These days i barely have time to make and edit full videos. It takes so much time but i will be back to it soon. In the videos below i went to the Museum in town of our tradition and cultures.

I had few memories of how life was in the old days in villages because we used to visit there with my parents sometimes. it was precious times

I liked what i learned there at the museum. it is important to know your culture in Gabon we have like 50 ethnic groups in a small country with different cultures and native languages. So it means a lot to learn in term of tradition and culture

As a foodie person I like to share what i eat sometimes. this is an exotic salad that we like to eat here

Talking about tradition few days ago, we had my second niece's traditional wedding. We do both here.The traditional wedding and the modern one in European style (because of course due to our colonized history). It means that the couples go in front of the mayor of our city to say the vows and tie the knot The Traditional wedding is important to us. It is our culture and has a lot of meaning. So these are the videos of the traditional wedding

We spent good time as a family and it was a pleasure to welcome the other family (my niece's family in law) there were sitting on the other side.

It was a nice and pleasant event. We talked we danced, we ate after the important part of the presentation of the dowry. And no I am not in the pictures in this blog. do not search to see me. I am just the blogger!😅 but I was present

Traditional wedding. The organization and the presentation. How we welcomed the guests in the family place out of town.

There is life after work. There are things to do especially in the weekend. What about you and in your hometown? So I went to town and visit and discover places then I did some shopping too/. I discovered that place in town Soho The concept Store. They have nice things to buy and try

If you do not shop then you go eat or just go enjoying a place to relax. We went to a restaurant next to the coast.The breeze of the ocean was all over my face it was so relaxing The restaurant is original and it is named Mystic Bantu. If you ever go to Libreville try to go to Mystic Bantu restaurant

The funny part of my time with my friend there at the Mystic Bantu restaurant. My friend and the waiter suggested me to take another cocktail. A special one according to them. They told me you should try "The Tchiza" cocktail. The one I had first was "Libreville, la Belle" meaning Libreville the beautiful.

I was thinking about enjoying the day in my hometown. The waiter begged me to order the Tchiza cocktail too so look what I got? As I was enjoying my conversation with my friend. Laughing and talking and eating I saw the lady puting something on the table. i didn't expect that and I almost choked on my food. Obviously my friend knew what it was. I had no idea. They both laughed when they told me about that cocktail

this is the Tchiza cocktail! I know right? I could not stop laughing. Then of course I drank it and guess what it was good! Lol!! How funny it was. a glass of cocktail just like that! Sometimes it is good to be simple and enjoy life.

so that one below is Libreville la Belle. Libreville the beautiful

life is indeed beautiful. ***

I had good times at the Mystic Bantu.

thank you for reading You can also go to my website/blog www.poshenvogue.com This is a song from young gabonese artists that I like . They sing to try to forget the pain and difficulties of life