Gabon
17m
Aug 24, 2026
The Forest That Speaks: Gabon's Bwiti Tradition and the Knowledge Beyond the Living
Deep in the equatorial rainforests of Gabon, a spiritual tradition older than the state that contains it has been asking the same question for centuries: what do the dead know that the living have forgotten? The Bwiti answer involves iboga, a root bark that the forest keeps, an all-night ceremony that the community performs, and a journey that no one who has taken it describes the same way twice.