{"id":10288,"date":"2021-11-02T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/?page_id=10288"},"modified":"2021-12-05T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T19:05:26","slug":"web-great-lakes-region","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/web-great-lakes-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Web: Great Lakes Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AB_19_28-DRCCongoRiverKindu21.06.09-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><strong>Arriving &#8211; Setting off<\/strong> The Congo River in Kindu, Maniema Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo &#8211; length 4374 km<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"imbuto-content-card-block \">\n\n\n    \n\n<p><strong>Arriving<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Setting off<\/strong> with a dugout canoe &#8211; Pirogue in Kindu, Province of Maniema &#8211; Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A place of tranquility and peace. <br>With a length of 4374 km, the Congo is the second longest river on the African continent. It has the most water-rich rapids on the Earth, of which the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boyoma_Falls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stanley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Livingstone_Falls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Livingstone falls<\/a> are the most famous ones &#8211; and thus we are at the conquest of Africa. Do read who Mr. Stanley and Mr. Livingstone arem, e.g.: Stanley, Henry M., <strong>In Darkest Africa<\/strong>: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat. First edition. London 1890, p. 519.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European slave trade and colonialism still have far-reaching effects on the political, social and economic structures of the continent. Even today&#8217;s conflicts and wars, e.g. in the heart of Africa, have their causes in the colonial structural dependencies and asymmetries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imbuto has researched for you, and now it offers you the access to various web portals, especially in the field of social sciences, of internationally active <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/web-region-grosse-seen\/forschungszentren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research centers &#8211; Forschungszentren<\/a><\/strong>. <em>The websites are mainly in English.<\/em><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/web-region-grosse-seen\/konflikte-kriege-frieden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Konflikte | Kriege | Frieden &#8211; Conflicts | Wars | Peace<\/a><\/strong> leads particularly to the organizations in the Great Lakes region that are active in this area and often carry out research, <em>websites main<\/em>ly<em> in English.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opens doors to the knowledge of more than sixty organizations. We look forward to receiving your suggestions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feedback<\/a>. So that we can continue this work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/ways-to-support-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donations<\/a> are very welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compilation: Muriel Imhof &amp; Hildegard Sch\u00fcrings  November 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/web-great-lakes-region\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[255,253,254,256,240,257],"class_list":["post-10288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-africa","tag-conflict","tag-dr-congo","tag-great-lakes-region-2","tag-peace","tag-science"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Muriel-Imhof@t-online.de","author_link":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/author\/muriel-imhoft-online-de\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"[...]Read More...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10288"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10748,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10288\/revisions\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}