Parution Belgique - LE VIF - Les forçats de la Mer par Teddy Seguin
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The Aka pygmies :an endangered freedom
Granted Intangible World Heritage status by UNESCO, the Aka pygmies are considered to be the very first inhabitants of the Central African Republic. Once, they roamed the vast equatorial forests in the southwest of the country, following the seasons in their hunt for game, edible fungi or roots.
Nowadays, globalisation is gradually encroaching upon them and this nomadic people is beginning to settle around towns and villages, adopting a more agricultural lifestyle. Thanks to their isolation from the rest of Central African society, the Aka are still little known and, whilst they are attempting to modernise and free themselves from the yoke of the Bantu villagers who still keep many pygmy families as slaves, they also try to preserve their traditional lifestyle. Caught between inequitable trade and pure exploitation working on villager’s plantations, these Aka pygmies also fall prey to all the converts of the great monotheistic religions: always to the detriment of their own values.
The slaves of the sea
Thirteen years after the “moratorium” which prevented people from fishing cod in Newfoundland, the flotilla of trawlers fit for sea-fishing has almost completely disappeared. “Grande Hermine”, a 65-meter long trawler began her career in St Pierre and Miquelon on big shoals around 20 years ago. It was the ultimate chapter of an adventure which lasted for over three centuries. The whole history of fishing in Normandy, Brittany, the Basque Country and of course Saint Pierre et Miquelon was built around trawler fishing and their departures for the Newfoundland shoals. The seamen have known for a long time that they are the last representatives of a profession which is doomed. They usually go fishing above the polar circle, in the Barents Sea where the Norwegian coast guards keep them under strict control. There they are fishing, from 12 to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, spending two to three months on some of the most hostile seas in the world, attracted by the “white gold” but above all passionate about a job that most of them have been doing since they were teenagers.
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Looking for Laperouse
On March 15th, 1788, after two and a half years of navigation through many oceans, the expedition led by Jean-François Galaup, count of Lapérouse ended in a violent storm below the cliffs of the island of Vanikoro in the Solomon archipelago. In April, 2005, the biggest expedition ever organized to look for Lapérouse since Dumont Durville in 1827, landed on the island of Vanikoro. In the same spirit as the century of enlightenment, Vanikoro 2005 was a multidisciplinary expedition of scientists embarked aboard Jacques Cartier, a French naval vessel. 
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- Autor ©Teddy Seguin / Lirbrearbitre / Lightmediation
- Date Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:42:30 +0200
