Category Archives: Lomami River

Torture and Truth along the Lomami

2018-04-23 – 9:40 pm

Torture has two main purposes: (1) Create fear and pain to bring out the truth (=encouragement) (2) Create fear and pain to punish a crime committed (=dissuasion) Which was the purpose in February 2018 along the Lomami? Kesonga was arrested, beaten, and repeatedly submerged in the Lomami with a sack over his head. Kesonga climbs […]

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Outboard dies as the Lomami Floods

2018-03-15 – 9:43 pm

Our big dugout on the Lomami with a little fishing dugout alongside. Even when the outboards are working well, the logistics of moving up and down the Lomami are always “best case scenario”. Papa Bolenga our northern helmsman thinks in liters –depth –kilometers. He measures time in minutes (“we docked at 22h17min”). But despite a […]

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Delcommune: Colonial Champion of the Lomami

2017-10-13 – 8:53 am

In 1889, Delcommune killed these hippos on the Lomami just south of the rapids we call Badinga and he called Lissambo. Early European travelers on the Lomami fed their troops by killing hippos and elephants.  The Lomami’s first advocate was the 19th century businessman, Alexandre Delcommune. He was more than an entrepreneur – he was […]

By Terese Hart | Also posted in History of TL2 | Comments (2)

Two Red Colobus-Two Sides of the Lomami River

2017-06-12 – 2:18 pm

Handsome, seemingly pensive, red colobus on the west bank of the Lomami River, Piliocolobus tholloni. Red Colobus are among the most beautiful – and difficult — of primates. Their cloaks of red, black and white enchant, but are elusive. Until now, this did not matter in the Lomami National Park. We had only one “sort” of […]

By Terese Hart | Also posted in Mystery monkeys | Comments (2)