![]() ![]() A friend with a pressing need entered his room urgently and rushed to the bathroom without respecting the instructions. Upon arrival, you are given the key to your room insisting that the door must always be locked, including when you are indoors. I can nothelp but tell some of the animal's prowess. At first it was very funny but quickly it became quite annoying. And basicly he was busy teasing the visitors. One of them had died recently but the other was free to go everywhere in the camp. The owner had recovered two young chimpanzees who had become adults. They opened the doors to visits of the most instructive, to penetrate this clandestine environment so closed. They mastered the diamond industry and a few beers and flatteries quickly brought them to confidences. That gave it an entertaining character, allowing to meet different people. The camp was frequented by the rare tourists, often expatriates living in Abidjan, as well as by buyers of diamonds. Some rooms and a large shaded round table where meals were taken together. The search for the diamond was always more dangerous and random, but having taken a wife in the area, he decided to set up a small camp on the river. One of these adventurers was European born in Central Africa he had arrived there a little by chance, at the right time, and had done some business. The area had a somewhat sulfurous reputation that can easily be imagined. The place had attracted adventurers, mostly foreigners from neighboring countries: Liberia, Burkina Faso or Guinea. Getting there was not really difficult but it was necessary to follow a long track that kept it protected from the curious. The village had lost its tranquility and its landscape was transformed into gruyère. A deposit rich enough to convert the quiet village, located on the banks of the river Bou, in a little Ivorian far west. The company went bankrupt giving way to a clandestine artisanal exploitation. These mines, exploited for a time, gave birth to a village called Tortiya. ![]() I do not know when or how, one day, someone found diamonds in this region of northern Ivory Coast. Remember that the person who speaks here is NOT me, Vincent Celier ( but a French guy. This is an authorized translation in English of a post in French by Rencontres avec l'Afrique : La ruée aux diamantsĪs my primary language is not English, there are probably some mistakes in my translation. ![]()
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