Central Africa

Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe are members of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). Six of those states (Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) are also members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) and share a common currency, the Central African CFA franc.

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Forestry was Gabon's primary industry, but much of the forest near the coast and rivers has been depleted.


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This tree has sacred properties that make it important for use in inititiaiton rites.


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Most of these masks are used primarily for boys initiations and secondarily for some funeral dances.


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After 1968 Gabon had one political party, the PDG


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The items displayed are a Kuba-Bushong ceramic pot made by Iding subgroup of Sankuru and a wooden "half moon" box for storing women's valuables that comes from the Kuba-Shoowa village …


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