A scattered, almost forgotten history, a memory in tatters, deserves real awareness, recording, reappropriation, enhancement and a real willingness to share.

Family archives other than those of the colonial administration: (the colonized's version, his view) 

Patriarch Igamba Paul's initiative and OIB
When, in the 1920s, we were asked by the Igamba Paul patriarch to gather the information requested by Reverend Father Lefebvre on Oroungou history and traditions, we asked certain elders and notables to tell us about them, we were told that the history and traditions of the country could and should only be known by one or a few, and entrusted to us as children of white people, without the consent and agreement of all the elders and notables of the country.

This answer made us understand that they agreed to tell and reveal only the facts, principles and traditions they wanted to, that they thought should be told, and in the way they wanted them to be understood. We also learned that certain truths could not be revealed to everyone, that knowledge was acquired and earned, but not given away. From then on, our decision was to dispense with them, to question ourselves, to retrace the course of reminiscence, cultivating innateities of the mind, to establish history and traditions through science.