Chine bLog » congo river http://www.chineblog.com Messing about in wooden, traditional, and tradition-inspired boats Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:55:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Dugout canoe from the Congo River basin http://www.chineblog.com/2007/12/dugout-canoe-from-the-congo-river-basin/ http://www.chineblog.com/2007/12/dugout-canoe-from-the-congo-river-basin/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:52:33 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/247-guid.html One of my favorite web sites is that for the African Wildlife Foundation (full disclosure: it was designed and build by my company, Forum One Communications). It is packed full of gorgeous images, but I kept running into one that stuck with me, for obvious reasons.

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I love these stories, like this one from Reuters or this one from the UN about dugout canoes bring ballots to parts of the Congo. Who says traditional boats don’t still have important geopolitical roles to play?

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