#guinean

[dyingenigma]

Dakan 'Destiny' [1997] directed by. Mohamed Camara

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

60's/70's

Irresistible guinean groove

Saved this track months ago, but today I couldn’t resist sharing it!!

22 Novembre Band – Kouma bursts with life, rhythm, and an energy that stays with you long after it ends.

I love how the pulse settles in right away — warm, earthy, and quietly hypnotic. It’s the kind of groove that feels like it’s been around forever.

[thejawsdevour]

Mohamed Cherif Haidur (Guinean) - Guinean Village (acrylic on canvas, 2015)

[cute-st]

@aichadrame

[written-nature]

Equatorial Africa possesses one of the most complex physical ecologies on earth. The region can be imagined as a layer cake of ecological zones running east to west as the Sahara receives virtually no precipitation and forms a forbidding but not impassable barrier stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. To its immediate south, the harsh Sahel is a tropical steppe that is visited by the summer rains. It gives way to the tropical savanna of the Sudan, a lush carpet of grasslands sweeping across Africa.

Then come the forests, nurtured by seasonal rains. An important transitional zone where wet forest and grasslands intermingle – the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic – stretches from Senegal across West Africa, with a finger reaching down to the coast in the Dahomey Gap, breaking up the belt of wet forest along the Gulf of Guinea and the Congo. The true rainforests ringing the seaboard and penetrating deep into central Africa are the face of the continent to much of the Atlantic.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Equatorial Africa possesses one of the most complex physical ecologies on earth. The region can be imagined as a layer cake of ecological zones running east to west as the Sahara desert rapidly changes into rainforest (see figure 8.1).

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[face-claims-central]

Mariama Diallo - Guinean, 1993

[vorta-vortex]

Guinan: you shouldn't be using a straw

Wesley: yeah yeah it's bad for the environment i know

Guinan: no, it's just a really weird way to eat lasagna