My zhili sredi baule - Grzhimek Berngard

"Whoever, like me, came to Africa from our European vanity, crampedness and gas, having got into a quiet and green, not yet built-up area, begins to notice that in addition to the animals interested in him, whose lives he came to study, there is no less worthy of his interest objects. Here you can meet people who, like our distant ancestors, still live a patriarchal village life, large families right in the middle of the forest, bush, and with their gods. This way of life will soon sink into eternity, and I am glad that I still had time to meet and make friends with these interesting people - the original inhabitants of the Ivory Coast." B. Grjimek