After working at the Ministry of Finance, Ntoutoume Emane was personal advisor to President Omar Bongo from 1976 to 1990.

In 2008, Music Man released the Bongo 6, its first six-string bass, played by Dream Theater's bassist John Myung-the company does not " endorse " any non-signature model musicians, but Sterling Ball was quoted as saying that " We won't be making any six-string basses unless a high-profile player asks for one ", while Myung was using a variety of 4 & 5-strings to record several Dream Theater albums until he and the company got together and began working on a prototype, which was so successful that Myung took it directly on tour with him.

In the presidential election held on 19 March 1967, M ' ba was re-elected as President with Bongo was elected alongside him as Vice-President.

In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan ( SSP ) Participant and in 2006 named the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year.

* The Bongo Repatriation to Mount Kenya Project

Outside of its historical home of Tanzania, Bongo Flava has become a resoundingly popular sound in neighboring, culturally related countries such as Kenya and Uganda.

Klear Kut has built a solid reputation as live performers and has performed at a number of live outdoor events including the Shaggy Boombastic Concert, Miss Uganda, Tevin Campbell New Year Concert, Sanyu Carnival in Uganda, Miss Kenya and Coca-Cola Race Day in Kenya, Bongo All-Stars in Tanzania, Sauti Za Busara in Zanzibar.

In 2010, at the Woburn Safari Park there was a conservation campaign to help raise money to support the Bongo Surviellance Project and the Kenyan Wildlife Service.

Bongo populations have been greatly reduced by hunting, poaching and animal trapping, although some bongo refuges exist.

Using the PDG as a tool to submerge the regional and tribal rivalries that have divided Gabonese politics in the past, Bongo sought to forge a single national movement in support of the government's development policies.

The Tanzanian artistes have devised a new style going by the name of " Bongo Flava ", which is a blend of all sorts of melodies, beats, rhythms and sounds.

Bongo did also have some measure of scandal.

Mescaleros Pablo Cook & Smiley together with Mike Peters ( The Alarm ), Derek Forbes ( Simple Minds ), Steve Harris ( Gary Numan ) are in Los Mondo Bongo ( a celebration of the music of Joe Strummer ) who together with Ray Gange ( DJ ) tour whenever possible performing those great Mescaleros tunes and have toured the UK and Canada.

The American artist, Glenn ( with no last name ) aka " The Great Bongo ", gave this pattern its name, and claims to have taught hundreds of jugglers " how to do it the easy way ".

Bongo flava has even found a home outside of the African continent ; the most popular artists in the genre have recently begin to address Western markets and the self-proclaimed " best internet station for Bongo Flava ,"< ref >" About Us.

In mid-August he said in reference to the PDG's selection of Bongo ( Omar Bongo's son ) as its candidate that " we are faced with a monarchy that wants to impose itself in our country " and that " we have to fight until the monarchists are thrown out ".

Among the games they may have developed are Computer Othello, Block Fever, Monkey Magic, Congo Bongo, Popeye, Donkey Kong, Radar Scope, Sheriff, Space Fever, Space Firebird, Space Demon, Heli Fire, Sky Skipper, Space Launcher and Zaxxon.

The combination of a relatively lightweight, resonant basswood body, neodymium pickups and 18-volt preamp give the Bongo a distinctive tonal character that is markedly different from other Music Man basses, which have none of these features.

Artists including but not limited to Machito & His Afro-Cuban Orchestra, Gipsy Kings, Buena Vista Social Club, Chachao, Seu Jorge, Frank Zappa, Kanda Bongo Man, Sam Flintrop, La Mano Negra, Ruben Gonzales, Autro Sandoval, Luis Fonsi have made bongo music essential to their upbeat sound.

Rock, country, jazz and hip hop have become an entrenched part of many countries, leading to local varieties like Australian country music, Tanzanian Bongo Flava and Russian rock.

The songs " Bongo Bong " and " Je ne t ' aime plus ", which appear back-to-back on Clandestino, were covered by British singers Robbie Williams and Lily Allen, who recorded them as a single track, " Bongo Bong and Je Ne T ' aime Plus " and released it as a single from the album Rudebox.

Wray recorded a cover version 30 years later, when it was also associated with The Ventures and the Incredible Bongo Band.

Only after a long insistence by Foccart did M ' ba agree to appoint Bongo as Vice President in replacement of Yembit, announcing his decision through a radio and television message recorded in his room on 14 November 1966.

In 2003, Aberfeldy recorded fourteen songs with producer Jim Sutherland at his studio above Edinburgh's Bongo Club, using only one microphone and no overdubbing.

Thee Headcoatees, an all-female vocal group consisting of Holly Golightly, Kyra LaRubia, Ludella Black, and ( until leaving in 1999 ) Bongo Debbie would often perform songs with the band and recorded several LPs.

The first 40 of the class named after breeds of antelopes and the like, and they became known as bongos after 8306 Bongo.

Bongo at John Ball Zoo, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Occasional large gigs are staged at Murrayfield and Meadowbank, with mid-sized events at venues such as the Corn Exchange, HMV Picture House, the Liquid Rooms, and the Bongo Club.

Expresso Bongo ( 1959 ) is a British film which features striptease at a club in Soho, London.

His versatility at the height of his career is exemplified by his starring roles in theatrical productions as diverse as the musical Expresso Bongo ( 1958 ) and Peter Brook's celebrated production of King Lear ( 1962 ).

The song stayed on the Billboard charts for 17 weeks ( it peaked at # 37 ); the single, backed with “ Bongo Party ,” and the soundtrack album both sold well.

Again, Jagland made national headlines similar to the publicity about " The Norwegian House " and " 36. 9 %", this time for the phrase " Bongo from Congo ", originally coined as an internal joke in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the expense of the President of Gabon, Omar Bongo.

Jagland stated on 2 February 2001 on the nationally broadcast television show I kveld med Per Ståle on TV 2 that " everybody at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs went around saying that ' now you are going to meet with Bongo from Congo.

Evans-Pritchard continued to lecture at the LSE and conduct research in Azande and Bongo land until 1930, when he began a new research project among the Nuer.

After completing his primary and secondary education in Brazzaville ( then the capital of French Equatorial Africa ), Bongo held a job at the Post and Telecommunications Public Services, before joining the French military where he served as a second lieutenant and then as a first lieutenant in the Air Force, in Brazzaville, Bangui and Fort Lamy ( present-day N ' djamena, Chad ) successively, before being honorably discharged as captain.

Bongo worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a time, and he was named Assistant Director of the Presidential Cabinet in March 1962 ; he was named Director seven months later.

Aged 31, Bongo was Africa's fourth youngest president at the time, after captain Michel Micombero of Burundi and sergeant Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo.

This moderate opposition group sponsored demonstrations by students and academic staff at the Universite Omar Bongo in Libreville in December 1981, when the university was temporarily closed.

In a separate French investigation into corruption at the former oil giant Elf Aquitaine, an executive testified that it paid Bongo £ 40m a year via Swiss bank accounts in exchange for permission to exploit his country's reserves.

An ardent Francophile, Bongo was at the inception of his Presidency happy to strike a favourable bargain with the old colonial power, France.

On 17 – 21 September 1986, the PDG held its Third Ordinary Congress in Libreville ; at the congress, it designated Bongo as its candidate for the single-party November 1986 presidential election.

The earliest and most reliable account of how " Bongo flava " found its way onto Tanzanian airways has Taji Luindi at the heart of the story.

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A memorial service was held on 20 November at Kingston's National Indoor Sports Centre, including a musical tribute from artists including Lloyd Parks and We the People Band, Ken Boothe, Freddie McGregor, Shaggy, Judy Mowatt, Mavado, The Tamlins and Bongo Herman, before his remains were interred at the Dovecot Cemetery.