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Tusumba, 45, is a straight-backed, teetotaling former deputy governor of Kasai province who never quite fit in politics. He started to come to that conclusion in 2000, when his constituents brought him a baby bonobo as a gift. Tusumba realized the villagers had slaughtered a bonobo family to obtain the little female. Rather than raise her as a pet, he decided to make her part of his family. "I used to eat with her at my table," he says. When Tusumba's term as deputy governor ended in 2004, he started concentrating full time on conservation, knowing...
...from London's National Gallery and was painted in August 1888 as part of Van Gogh's preparations for Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles, where the Dutch painter hoped to create an artists' commune. The second Sunflowers, on loan from the Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art in Tokyo, was painted a few months later on a piece of a bolt of burlap bought for Arles by Gauguin. It is curiously muted and its authenticity has been questioned, but extensive research in preparation for this exhibition indicates that the picture is indeed...
...occupants-Mark A. Faller '72, Ira E. Kasai '73, Kenneth G. Gross '71, and Jeffrey Mayersohn '73-had six friends visiting at the time of the incident...
...their excursion for diamonds, moreover, the cinematic mercenaries headed in the wrong direction. The Congo's chief source of diamonds is South Kasai province, which the real-life Simbas never attacked. Thrilling as it is under the suspension of disbelief, Dark of the Sun would have been a much brighter movie had it not pretended to mirror fact...
...Evariste Kassanda, 33-year-old chief of the Congo's elite Police des Mines, nearly everyone and everything coming out of the diamond-rich Kasai province is suspect. In search of an estimated $20 million in diamonds a year smuggled out of the Congo, he and his men have found contraband gems hid den in elephant tusks, embedded in bars of soap, even pumped into the stomachs of small edible crocodiles on their way to market...