BASENJI  AFRICA DOG

 

information worth knowing about Basenjis

                 

 

Basenjis TODAY

 

 

 

The Basenji, a family dog?

 

 

YES than and now. Compare for yourself.

 

 

 

1976, YOUR BASENJI by Evelyn M. Green.

 

 

 

Although Basenjis have been used successfully in the modern day hunt, there are surely better breeds for this purpose.

 

 

Ritual sacrifice in Africa

It was usual that dogs were sacrificed  in their rituals, so Basenjis too.

 

 

 

Goro-vodun medical ritual in the 1980s

 

 

 

 

The god Egou, the causer of car accidents, asks for dog blood.

 

 

 

 

Basenjis as actors

Goodbye My Lady

The book from James Street, which based by the same name of this film  in the 1950s .

Basenji Star: My Lady of the Congo and Brandon de Wilde

 

 

 

 

 

Basenji dogs have reached notoriety. A Basenji bitch was used as Actor on stage in 1992 in the Comedy Verlängertes Wochenende  by Curt Flatow.

 

Basenji Star:  Irette               Susanne Altweger and Klaus Kaluschka

  

Photo   L. Bermbach