Tradition and taboo keep Guinea-Bissau’s forests standing

COBIANA, Guinea Bissau – He remembers the first time he heard the voice of Mama Djombo. Albino Moreira Mendes was sleeping in his bed in Cobiana, a small town in rural northern Guinea-Bissau, when the messages, which he can only describe as coded noises, came to him. They told him how to perform a ceremony […]