Brazza

Following up on an earlier BoingBoing post about the cultural phenomenon of "sapeurs" in Congo ( "men who would rather starve than look poor," in the words of one African blogger) -- here's some video: Youtube Link to "Les sapeurs de Congo-Brazza."

Boing Boing 2007

Kenyan conservationists discovered the De Brazza monkey population in the country's arid north, yet the species is largely known to live in the wet areas west of the Rift Valley, Nairobi-based Wild Direct said in a study titled "Primates in Peril."

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Where in West Africa outside the Company will you find men worthy as explorers to be named in the same breath with de Brazza, Captain

Travels in West Africa 2003

Brazza, Pierre Savorgnan de, colonial administrator

Subject Index Page 12 2001

Brazza up the Sanga valley in the direction of the Chad.

Travels in West Africa 2003

De Brazza returned to the Congo River and secured French protectorates from the chief to the north of the river.

1866-71 2001

Besides Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas—the “trimâtes,” as they were sometimes called—Louis had a young woman studying the De Brazza monkeys in western Kenya, another beginning to track wild colobus monkeys, and a third looking into yet again the classification of the wildebeest.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Besides Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas—the “trimâtes,” as they were sometimes called—Louis had a young woman studying the De Brazza monkeys in western Kenya, another beginning to track wild colobus monkeys, and a third looking into yet again the classification of the wildebeest.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

The Brazza mission was already there, and the French flag was planted on the right bank.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Day; his widow and daughter, Countess di Brazza, survive him.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912