Nature Culture Future — transmission of the Bwiti tradition and Iboga in Gabon
In Gabon, we honour Iboga and the Bwiti ceremonies, safeguard a living heritage and transmit wisdom — for healing, unity and a flourishing future.
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What brings you here
No one comes by chance.
Most people come at the end of something. An emptiness nothing fills. A dependency they can no longer escape. An old wound that still weighs. The Bwiti passes on a living tradition and opens a path. Many have left Ebando transformed, set back in motion by what they went through.
Find meaning again
Comfort is no longer enough. You are looking for who you really are.
Is this a path for you?Break a dependency
Free yourself from what holds you: substances, medication, old patterns.
Is this a path for you?Set down a burden
A wound, violence, a resentment carried for too long.
Is this a path for you?I · An association
In Gabon, in Central Africa, an association of men and women who believe that the teachings of the first peoples and the Bantu cultures can contribute to a more nuanced world culture, one more in harmony.
Some are teachers, entrepreneurs, scientists. Others are craftspeople, traditional healers, village planters, fishermen, musicians, gatherers.
A whole society.An NGO rich in resources for any researcher or visitor to the Gabonese Republic.
At the heart of Ebando
The Voices of the Survivors
A space with no statutes where those who have endured sexual violence can speak with one another. Speech is set free, and shame changes sides.
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Gabon — one of the most preserved forest heritages in the world
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Five ways in.
II · The journey
An initiation is not limited to the days spent on site.
It begins with the decision to come, and continues in the months that follow.
An initiation is not something that can be rushed. It takes time, and it takes patience.
— Bwiti tradition — Ebando 2026
Our team
Tatayo
Bwiti Fang Dissumba (1979) · Missoko-Ngondey (1994)
What they bring
Hugues Obiang Poitevin, known as Tatayo. Arrived in Gabon in 1971. Initiated into Bwiti Fang Dissumba in 1979, then into Bwiti Missoko-Ngondey na Dipuma in 1994. Co-founder of Ebando (1999). Main point of contact for visitors.
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The place
Fifteen minutes from Libreville airport.
Ebando sits along the beach, in a picturesque corner of Gabon's capital. The private rooms and the comfortable tents on the upper terrace are lulled by the sound of the waves.
The rhythm of the place follows that of the forest and the ocean. Silence is respected, light is respected.
Day to day
Our ongoing activities.
The association lives through concrete action, at every hour of the day and night: initiations, healing, ecotourism, ecological work, presentations of traditional instruments, a survey of the country's craftspeople.
Everything that makes up this daily life is rooted in one and the same commitment — to preserve, to transmit, to accompany.
Alongside Ebando
Work that is never done alone
Ebando moves forward with associations that protect Gabon's forest, Iboga and communities.
V · To go further
If something calls you, write to us.
An initiation is prepared. A prior conversation is essential. We answer you personally.