Portrait
Panga / Nyanga province / July 2003
© Laurent Sazy
Sazy's photographs portrays Ehoumou during a consultation at night while the nganga is under the influence of iboga (Tabernanthe iboga). During the initiations, the people of the village know the nganga will be under the influence of iboga and in the Bwiti Missoko-gonde you have a consultation period at the end of the initiations. People come to consult the nganga to discover why they are ill. Sometimes a novice who has eaten a lot of iboga during their initiation can perform a consultation as they have the power to read other people.