Wongolo

All proceeds from Lennertz's take on "Wongolo," which he calls "one of Haiti's most famous folk melodies," go to Hands Together.

Variety.com 2010

“You shall have special leave as soon as the Wongolo affair is over.”

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

As they approached the Wongolo border rumours began of a white god with eyes upon his hands and live fire in his mouth who, so said the delighted Wamongo, had entirely eaten up the hated

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Wongolo, but what it was exactly they did not know.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

He would continue straight to Wongolo instead of investigating the Kivu country, where zu Pfeiffer might perhaps have another opportunity to cause more trouble.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

But over them, as well as every Wongolo in and about the place, was a sullen air not of defiance but of expectant listening.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

In the hut of the Wongolo chiefs squatted Yabolo among the rest, silently observing the preparations for the punitive expedition which Sakamata had informed them was being prepared in response to the insolent challenge of the white man who had allied himself with the “rebels.”

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

With difficulty, for the Wongolo are not forest people, he followed the spoor in a semi-circle towards the village and a footprint in the slime revealed the track of Zalu Zako or Marufa coming from the fires.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

For they had not progressed beyond the stage of magic as far as any concept of religion, that is of praying for intercession to any power greater than themselves; whereas the mental state of the Wongolo was half-way between magic and religion, mixing and confusing the two as exemplified in the Rain-making ceremony of employing magic and alternately invoking the god and threatening him with dire penalties if he did not behave.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Neither he nor his sergeants nor their men could speak the Wongolo tongue fluently, so that for interpreter he was compelled to employ one of the corporals.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle