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| 4. | Gabon: History of Gabon, Politics of Gabon, Provinces of Gabon, Departments of Gabon, List of Places in Gabon, Economy of Gabon, Geography of Gabon, Demographics of Gabon, Ethnic Groups in Gabon
Paperback (68 pages) (Alphascript Publishing)
Gabon is a country in west central Africa sharing borders with the Gulf of Guinea to the west, Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, and Cameroon to the north, with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. Its size is almost 270,000 km² with an estimated population of 1,500,000. The capital and largest city is Libreville. Since its independence from France on August 17, 1960, the Republic has been ruled by three presidents. In the early 1990s, Gabon introduced a multi-party system and a new democratic constitution that allowed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed many governmental institutions. The small population density together with abundant natural resources and foreign private investment have helped make Gabon one of the most prosperous countries in the region, with the highest HDI in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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| 5. | National Geographic: Gabon - The Last Eden
DVD featuring Glenn Close (Warner Brothers)
Gabon is an unlikely Eden where relentless predators stalk prey in lush forests and primates, who have not yet learned to fear man, live right alongside forest elephants. Against all odds, one visionary African leader and a group of dedicated scientists defied the conventional wisdom that insists oil and logging are the only way to bring prosperity to an impoverished land. Out of the wild they created 13 new national parks - and are now developing an eco-tourism industry to sustain them. Gabon: The Last Eden tells this amazing story with stunning footage - silverback gorillas defending territory, mandrill baboons faces splashed with day-glow color, and hippos wallowing in the ocean - exploring one of the planet's last true wildernesses and what is being done to save it.
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| 7. | Gabon: Myene Songs
Audio CD (Ocora France)
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| 8. | Historical Dictionary of Gabon (African Historical Dictionaries/Historical Dictionaries of Africa)
Hardcover (528 pages) by David E. Gardinier (The Scarecrow Press, Inc.)
This second edition, like the first, provides both basic information and considerable detail about Gabon and its history in a form useful to both casual readers and professional scholars. The volume updates many of the earlier entries and presents the results of new research on the period between 1914 and 1940. Gardinier also synthesizes data about the transformations that have occurred since 1967 under President Omar Bongo, including the upheavals of 1990-91. The introduction presents an overview of Gabon from prehistory to the present. A detailed chronology of events of the past five centuries follows, with tables of statistical data on population, national budgets, external trade, and domestic production since 1960. Within the dictionary itself are lists of colonial govenors and Catholic bishops. The alphabetical entries of the dictionary include individuals, groups, and movements; terms and events; and capsule histories of institutions and the forty peoples. The entries encompass both the pre-colonial and colonial periods (e.g., the slave trade, concessionary groups, the Mpongwe trading polities, early anti-colonial groups) and the eras of decolonization and national independence. Education, religion, the arts, the media, and health receive attention along with politics, foreign relations, the economy, and the society. After each dictionary entry are given the most important references in the comprehensive bibliography of 1,453 books, articles, and theses.
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| 9. | The Gabon Virus: A Novel
Kindle Edition (448 pages) by Paul McCusker (Howard Books)
A medical lab looking for a profitable vaccine unleashes a virulent new disease—and Time Scene Investigators, a covert U.S. team, must find a cure.
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