Tsogho

Also known as Mitsogho, they are a village dedicated to agriculture and fishing. They live on the right bank of the Goumé River, a forest area. The secret Bwiti association ensures the union of the group. Like other ethnic groups in Gabon, Kota, Fang or Ambete For example, they too practice the cult of ancestors by placing statuettes in baskets containing some bones of ancestors. These guards of reliquary have therapeutic virtues. Access to the Bwiti society is achieved after overcoming a series of hard tests and obtaining a whole series of knowledge about nature, medicinal plants and the meaning of the rites and customs of the group including the passage through hallucinatory trances to which one arrives chewing hallucinogenic roots.