Image Source: Flickr.com In the tropical forests of West-Central Africa, there live the mysterious Fang people. It is believed that Bwiti had borrowed their religion from an even more mysterious tribe of Pygmies during their migrations across the African continent. Since neither the Fang people nor the Pygmies had kept chronological records, the history of […]
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The Bwiti Religion
Image Source: Flickr.com The emergence of the Bwiti culture takes its roots at the turn of the last century during the period when Catholicism and Mysticism were merging together. Iboga was perceived as the Tree of Good and Evil from which Adam and Eve had plucked and eaten the forbidden fruit. The Bwiti movement reached […]