Bush Negro girl fishing on banks of Tapanahoni River. The Bush Negroes (bosnegro) live in isolated communities in the interior of Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana, in South America. Descended from escaped slaves who moved far into the jungle to escape recapture in the 18th century, they were able to remain culturally and ethnically distinct...Manfrotto.This was very much a case of having the light and needing to shoot, and time was quickly running out. I was on assignment for GEOmagazin in Surinam, the former Dutch colony in the northeast corner of South America, the sun was setting and we were in a motorized canoe heading up the Tapanahoni River into the interior. Indeed, we weren’t that far from our destination, a small Bosneger riverside village. The Bosneger, ‘Bush Negroes’ in English (also Maroons), are the descendants of escaped slaves in the former colony, and as many of them travelled deep into the interior they were able to establish communities that bore close resemblance to the West African ones from which they had been taken. And they were my assignment, with Shiva Naipaul as writer, although for this trip I was on my own. .