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People by city in Gabon (5 C) People from Gabon by province (9 C) + Gabonese men (1 C) Gabonese women (3 C, 1 P) C. Gabonese people by century (2 C)
People of Kota (Gabon) descent (1 C) M. Mexican people of Gabonese descent (1 P) N. Nigerian people of Gabonese descent (1 C, 1 P) S. São Tomé and Príncipe people ...
Gabon (/ ɡ ə ˈ b ɒ n / gə-BON; French pronunciation: ⓘ), officially the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.
French explorers penetrated Gabon's dense jungles between 1862 and 1887. The most famous, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, used Gabonese bearers and guides in his search for the headwaters of the Congo River. France occupied Gabon in 1885, but did not administer it until 1903. Gabon's first political party, the Jeunesse Gabonais, was founded around ...
Also: Gabon: People: By occupation: Writers. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. + Gabonese male writers (5 P)
Ping was born in Omboué, a small town on the Fernan Vaz lagoon, south of Port-Gentil. [6] His father, Cheng Zhiping, called Wang Ping by the Gabonese, was a Chinese person from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, who was recruited as a labourer in the 1920s and became a timber harvester.
Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain-Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959), [1] [2] also known as Ali Bongo and Ali Ben Bongo, [1] is a Gabonese former politician who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 to 2023. [3] [4] [5] He is a member of the Gabonese Democratic Party. He is the son of Omar Bongo, who was president of Gabon from
Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 January 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009.