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The country of Benin is said to be the link between life and death. Filled with the spirits of the past, this country is the birthplace of voodoo and ritual tradition. The people of Benin are fighting to protect their heritage amidst a changing world.

Elsewhere, the heart and soul of Gabon rests under a plentiful and lush rainforest. Covering 80% of the country, the people of Gabon are provided with all the essential elements for their traditions and medicine. How can the Gabonese protect their green heritage from the threats of the modern world?

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30 Comments

  2. Pietro Jenkins

    West African traditions won't survive long.The onslaught of internet,mass travel and more education is making many natives to emigrate legally and illegally to other better lands.

  3. Bfly.

    Interesting. I am an Afro-Brazilian and I understand this dialect perfectly.

  7. Sarah B

    Please keep our African tradition alive. Our culture, our heritage. From our ancestors and generations to generations.

  12. Chad Hurley

    I've never before seen a so intentionally staged native documentary. But if you like stage shows it's somewhat entertaining

  19. Fun&Games

    Fight to keep loving the good way.
    You don't want to live like white people who have broken families,dysfunctional families,drug addiction,sissy homosexual males,evil worshippers,pollution,disease,etc…

  20. FaZeghost

    I hope people that want to change them don't do it, they know how to take care of themselves,all the tribes should be left alone

  21. FaZeghost

    I am so happy that they wore masks so the gorillas don't get any human disease any body that goes looking for gorillas should wear masks

  23. Shawn Prime

    What is this white woman doing in the woods with 4 men?🤢🤯😭😱🥺😫😳😳😳😲😲😯😯😯😮

  25. Flower

    I love this! Benin people be strong and do not let anybody to destroy your traditions and culture. The fisherman says he is 65 years old but he has more muscles than most of young people from western countries. Wonderful video of strong people. I can not stop watching. 🙏🏼❤️

  26. Wendy Smith

    BBC I suppose is the answer to the Q., Why is pornography hidden in this documentary. I stopped wanting to view this utube vid at frightening the children and women with an exhibition of strength over bantam rooster. The narrator in this utube video sounds like BBC or a product of watching BBC in recent years or recent decades., as there's a significant amount of phsycoanalytics being utilised in television to satisfy the appetites of those who are sick in the mind and can conceal their interest. The video is dark and all l can do is listen and l know a description so l shouldn't and don't want to watch it or listen to it but it's duty and for self-preservation also in order to not have such things be utilised for greed and the Benene got lucky when the insects that were biting them chased them into the water for those who find an escape from insects or tryanasaurus Rex don't want to share a place that's got limited resources and the stories about being chased is like so many stories when people who have seen violence and behaved violently in rage and win their battle find the admiration of their woman at the least more interesting than being enslaved., and the story about being chased is history and history is packed full of untruths. Those so called civilised people making this video as is being without doubt significantly educated probably at Cambridge because they're the actors arent they? If say more but l can't see the video and the only reason l decided to write is because the real world needs me to say work at avoiding maleria and if you wanna know it's not malaria medicine you need is a BUGZAPPER. THE BLOOD ON THE MOUND OF EARTH IS FOR ATTRACTING NEAR MICROSCOPIC INSECTS AND AIR MICROBES that infest soil and decaying wood and if you go to the desert or the lake you might avoid it ., unless you make friends with a concrete floor builder or a Bug Zapper manufacturer and that's not even enough because those microbes come in varying strengths and l wish that baby girl her health ., and without being insulting l would tell these poor people to buy lavender talc and soap in massive quantities. And utilise mosquito could OUTSIDE not inside because it's poisen. That's what the BANTUM ROOSTER BLD IS ABOUT.,u no…if the microbes float and jumping and shaking makes the air shake., so they don't spear in. Socks and rubber shoes. That baby needs attention.

  27. Wendy Smith

    Don't stand in the shade unless it's warm and don't put babies on the ground. Unless your still and have a good big clean tarp or elephant sized hide., so l understand why you do what you do and it's because you live your children and being stomped on and fighting for life and keeping one's family from looking for an easier life ., defecting as such there's a need to keep control by reminding them that the grass is not always greener on the other side and is not just that and not always that. And l feel crying for you people and benumbed who found favour but not God. Jesus is the way the truth and the life and l said last night that with the gore Christianity is the way should shine hope to see justice in this world for all peoples. There is a spirit that is created when you become poisoned from pathogens and microbes.,as not able to define the pathology of these cheaters. I can not see them but l know they're there. Remember though , that Christianity does not condone gore because like the happy one step up the ladder Benine, happiness is the admiration of wives and children without the remembral is just a glass ball. I'm getting mixed up because l am old and l can't play the tambourine and l don't like gourds because they make rubbish ., after you've got one or two and kept them to paint and decorate but never do because you must do fattening and keep up with the neighbours and call Nassa before you can get approval to put in wood burning stove. . .wellthere's no time but to worry about YOU PEOPLE. AND THOSE BRITISH SCUMBAGS WHO WANT TO TRAP ORDINARY DIE WOMEN AND OTHERS FOR THEIR OWN AMUSEMENT OR TO SABOTAGE THEM AND KEEP THEIR VOICE MUTED.. WERE ALL ON THIS PLANET TOGETHER AND ABOUT CHRISTIAN THING.,I BERNICE THERE IS ROOM FOR ALL BUT I DON'T WANT ANY MORE NEIGHBOURS LIKE YOU . SORRY. I PRAY FOR ME AND MINE AND GIVE THE TRUTH. AND MY VERY RARE TEAR.

  29. Wendy Smith

    I can see the screen now and Shwitzers death and his prize don't matter but there it seems the French doctor with a big heart and brave soul doesn't know that why some people survive malaria and question is do the children sleep on the ground. Or near a word pile. Can they wash their floor or just sweep the dirt ., which is on for a half a day depending on wind conditions., but rain is good and in the sunshine is good but you be in the rain all the time unless you've a garden hose., and my neighbours all work in dirty jobs and drive their vehicles into Woods and they know how to gather concentrations of these invisible ants. There is l think certain ground dwelling creatures that cohabit or have symbiotic relationship with the invisible ants and I'm trying to slowly discover more about this. I like trees and l my maidenianna that shared with Mr G Learmonth., in a border. But he is not living near me., meaning he's not a neighbour but he doesn't like my trees either l think. Yes l would rejoice in twins too., Ms Babonga. It's hard to write text and watch a dark utube video and l hope l miss all the pornography because l always don't watch and act my eyes because film is not like a marble statue abs l didn't even want to read Brice Courtney after opening one page ., but l didn't throw it away incase it was truthful and l gained the strength to deal with more than l could already concentrate on.

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