Thinking
of visiting Guinea? Here are some excerpts from publications
on Guinea and our visitors’ comments.
"I
admiringly contemplated this countryside that is so beautiful
and pleasant although bristled with high mountains…This
beautiful country seems favored by nature, it is populated
by an infinity of birds with an infinity of colors.”
“From all sides one can see nothing but hollow gullies
and high cliffs surrounding more or less extensive plateaux…real
beauty spots"
"Country
of great rivers, while in the plane, peeping through your
cotton-like clouds, I admired your quiet ribbons, your immense
stretches of land that are so powerful, and yet not as hostile.
I recognized the man strolling along the red thread-like paths
that chalant and shady, glistening and peacefully noisy pearl
along the coast. These people actually charmed me, a set of
people made of smiling men, fast moving children and women
with royal breasts draped in sun and color."
"I
traveled across your friendly mountains and saw your shepherds
grazing their herds, and discovered in the savannah the large
rivers playing host to the crocodiles, I penetrated the stifling
and disturbing forest where the holy dance finds its frantic
rhythm; elsewhere again I met your handsomely naked men adorned
with pearls and bracelets. I also witnessed the storm and
the grey curtains of the rain stretching out to cover all
of these"
"Vision
of yesterday and today. Here is Guinea, still looking very
much like herself, with her smiles and rites, her ancestral
dances and night songs, her forests, her hunters, her mangrove
swamps, her peaceful elephants always on the watch for timid
antelopes…and her children who, in the streets, would
mildly say to you, “Bonzour missier” and then
disappear."
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