{"id":791,"date":"2023-12-08T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:50:19","slug":"le-guide-bendje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/le-guide-bendje\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guide (Bendj\u00e8)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bendj\u00e8<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Bendj\u00e8,<\/strong> or Bendj\u00e8 y'Oganga \"Great Pygmy Doctor\" attached to the Aboulia tribe.\u00a0He was the compass, the \"Supreme Guide\" of the Orungu people on their descent to the sea, led by King R\u00e9to-Ndongo. Bendj\u00e8 had promised the king and his people the discovery of a great and beautiful country.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so it came to pass. Arriving in the promised land, it was time to find a name for the new country. As usual, the Orungu retired with the king in conciliation to deliberate on the choice of name.<\/p>\n

They decided to name the new country after their guide \"Bendj\u00e8\", as a sign of gratitude and \"Gratitude\". And they named it \"Eliwa-Bendj\u00e8\", meaning \"Bendj\u00e8 Country\".<\/p>\n

This choice reveals the humility and greatness of spirit of King Reto-Ndongo and his people.<\/p>\n

Today, the zealous people would have demanded that the country be named after their king. What's more, the king would have demanded that his name be sung.<\/p>\n

Bendj\u00e8, a true sentinel devoted to the people's cause, has been inducted into the Pantheon of our \"Great Men\".<\/p>\n

C\u2019\u00e9tait un savant, un connaisseur du pays, un docteur en g\u00e9ographie. (Professeur Marc-Louis Ropivia).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bendj\u00e8   Bendj\u00e8, ou Bendj\u00e8 y\u2019Oganga\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0Grand docteur Pygm\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb attach\u00e9 \u00e0 la tribu Aboulia.\u00a0C\u2019est la boussole, le \u00ab Guide supr\u00eame \u00bb du peuple Orungu lors de sa descente vers la mer, sous la conduite du roi R\u00e9to-Ndongo. Bendj\u00e8 avait promis au roi et au peuple, la d\u00e9couverte d\u2019un beau et grand pays. Ce qui se r\u00e9alisa. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}