Has Anyone Been To Gabon?

Hi Todd Terry

why Gabon? what do you want to do there? They all speak French, it is a nice and rich country but also (partly excessively) expensive, Gabon has just got slightly more 1 million inhabitants (300 000-400 000 immigrants are already included in that figure). The country is half the size of France.

Do you want to visit Libreville, Port Gentil or Franceville (three "major" cities) in Gabon? Their capital  has just got less than 500 000 people. There used to be an Air Gabon service between Lagos and Libreville but as the airline in a phase of complete  restructuring presently, it stopped all their African routes. They only fly now to Paris (oly international route) and the two other main cities  in Gabon (Port Gentil and Franceville).

why Gabon? what do you want to do there?


exactly!!!! Gabon? for what?!!! 

Thanks Constantin.  Gabon looks really nice.  Too bad no flights between Nigeria and Gabon.  Would hate to think you have to fly all the way back to Paris to get to Gabon. 

no one even thinks about "gabon". i even forgot it existed.

HI NAIJA DIVA,

The reason is that it has been one of the few African countries that have always remained tranquil and realtively economically thriving from its days of independance. the press never like to show the better side of our continent when there are still some “Liberias” raging on. 

Gabon is really nice, been there myself. Although Gabonese society is also traditional  the country has culturally been heavily influenced by France. (very visible in the urban centres: many shopping facilities same as in France, cultural activities, fashion labels and shows, restaurants, cafés, patisseries, swanky nightclubs, all Gabonese speak a very good French on the streets and even to each other, you have tons of French experts in governement , in schools and universities, managers in business , French lawyers, doctors, IT-consultants, architects, and even pilots, France has three military permanent bases in Gabon  in order to defend the country from outside attacks, their currency used to be tied to the French Franc and is now to the euro--> gives a lot of monetary stability to Gabon etc, ). Gabonese people love to go to France for holidays or to further their studies there. France always had a sort of special relationship to that country, even during colonialism which has been very soft and "easy-going" in Gabon as opposed to other colonial powers in Africa. Libreville´s  waterfront is even modelled after Nice in France (of course much smaller).  When you take out the immigrants, Gabon has just got 700 000 native Gabonese but a relatively large permanent French community (20 000 to 30 000 people, largest French community in Sub-saharan Africa apart from Senegal, I have been told). Many have children who are already born in Gabon and have dual citizenship, and you see maaannnyy mixed couples and mulattos and mulattas there. Some say that Gabonese are due to their wealth pretty arrogant and they consider themselves "a class of its own in Africa", to my mind, there are snobs there, too, as everywhere in the world but also very nice and calm people. Very relaxed lifestyle.

This is one massive waterfront project that will soon be built in Libreville at a staggering cost of 500 Million Dollars. Replete with a megamall, a marina, office facilities, an exhibition centre and an amusement area (bowling, ice-skating, cineplex etc.) and two designer luxury hotels, too.

  i was there in 1997 for about 6 months before i came bask , i stayed at port nomba it is a fishing area at the outskirt of libreviell , gabon is cool but they were hostile to nigerians. you will to hear this , THEY LIKE SEX  A LOT , MOST OF THE LADIES ARE SINGLE PARENT , THEY ARE IN LOVE WITH THEIR BEER REGAB , MAKOSSA AND ALL NIGHT SEX .

Very correct there. It is typical of French people anyway. It's all about sex for their ladies.


Separating Gaboness and champagne is like trying to separate women/ladies and mirror or better still, ibo girls and money. Till tomorrow Gabonees and champagne/beer are like mpnkey and banaana

I go there everyother month

its a nice place.