The Bapounou (or Pounou) are one of the four major peoples of Gabon, inhabiting interior mountain and grassland areas in the southwest of the country, around the upper N'Gounié and Nyanga Rivers. Gabon (gəˈbɒn or /gaˈbõ/ in French) is a country in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic The Nyanga River, 600km is a River that runs through southern Gabon and northern Republic of the Congo. Bapounou also live in the Divénié, Kibangou, and Mossendjo districts of the Republic of the Congo. Mossendjo is a town located in the Niari Region of the Republic of the Congo. The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo Kongo: Repubilika ya Kongo; Lingala: Republiki ya Kongó) also known as Congo-Brazzaville They are linguistically related to the Eshira. The Eshira people are a Bantu Ethnic group of Gabon primarily living in the forests and grasslands south of the Ogowe River and west of its tributary
Bapounou traditions record a migration from the south sometime before the 19th century, as a result of wars somewhere between the Congo and Niari River. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar The Congo River (for a time known as the Zaire River) is the largest River in Western Central Africa. The Kouilou-Niari River &mdashalso spelled Kwilu, Kwila, or Kwil &mdashis the main drainage path for the coastal basin of the Republic of the Congo In the 19th century they gathered rubber, and participated in the slave trade, sending both their own and acquisitions from further inland to Loango and Fernan Vaz. As a social-economic system slavery is a legal institution under which a Person (called "a slave" is compelled to work for another Fernan Vaz Lagoon is a large Lagoon on the Atlantic coast of Gabon. In the present day, the Bapounou are noted for their cloth made of palm fiber, and for iron weaponry. Arecaceae or Palmae (also known by the name Palmaceae, which is taxonomically invalid or commonly palm tree) the palm family is a family of Flowering Iron (ˈаɪɚn is a Chemical element with the symbol Fe (ferrum and Atomic number 26
The Bapounou were once called Bayaka by others, but they themselves consider this a pejorative.
References
- David E. Gardinier, Historical Dictionary of Gabon, 2nd ed. (The Scarecrow Press, 1994) p. 59
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