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The Kwele are a small Bantu-speaking people of the Sangha River region, straddling the border between the Republic of Congo and southeastern Gabon. Inhabitants of the dense equatorial rainforest, the

The Bwa (also known as Bobo-Oulé) are a Gur-speaking people of central and western Burkina Faso and eastern Mali. They are renowned for producing some of the most dramatic and formally ambitious masks

The Nafana are a small Gur-speaking people inhabiting the borderland between northwestern Ghana and northeastern Côte d'Ivoire. Despite their relatively small population, they are renowned across the

The Guro are a Mande-speaking people of central Côte d'Ivoire, inhabiting a forested zone between the savannah cultures to the north and the coastal cultures to the south. Renowned for producing some

The Mossi are the largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso, organising themselves around a cluster of traditional kingdoms ruled by the Mogho Naba (Emperor of the World) in Ouagadougou. Their kingdom trad