Comments on: STAFF BENDA BILILI #2 – Reasons to be cheeful https://www.andymorganwrites.com/staff-benda-bilili-2-reasons-to-be-cheeful/ In depth writing about global music, culture & West African affairs Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.3 By: Brazzaville Beach In Kinshasa https://www.andymorganwrites.com/staff-benda-bilili-2-reasons-to-be-cheeful/#comment-18 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:08:16 +0000 http://66.147.244.198/~andymorg/?p=38#comment-18 […] STAFF BENDA BILILI #2 – Reasons to be cheeful | Andy Morgan Writes Another is to take advantage of one of ex-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko's more benign statutes exempting disabled persons from paying any taxes on the ferries which steam across the vast Congo river, linking Kinshasa with Brazzaville the capital of . Various 'associations' of disabled traders dominate the commerce of Ngobila Beach the ferry port on the Kinshasa side. Thirty years ago, it was here that Coco met Ricky Likabu, or 'Papa Ricky' as he's known to the shégués of . […]

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