Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Participants carry out dance steps during a Bwiti rite in a temple in Mouila in the south of Gabonho Some in Gabon believe the ...

Group of withies decorated with red dye. Bound with an aluminum band and botton cut from a Japanese spray can. Judith Knight notes: "This region [?] is the central area for Bwiti initiation rituals ...

Moughenda Mikala, a 10th-generation Missoko Bwiti Shaman has launched Iboga Retreat Center with the goal of spreading Iboga's profound healing with the world.

Some in Gabon believe the bitter iboga root comes from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Others elsewhere have derided it as a dangerous drug.