Culture Despite their reputation as the most prominent slave traders in the region, some visitors to the kingdom left favorable reviews of the region and its people. John Newton visited the area in 1743 and remarked that they seemed "the most humane and moral people I ever met with in Africa; and they were the people who had the least intercourse with Europe at that time". This must not have remain true for very long. As time passed, the Orungu took on European dress and customs. However, the Orungu people held strongly to their traditional beliefs and were hostile to European missionaries  . As a result, few gained western educations thus limiting their influence in colonial administration or post-colonial politics of Gabon. Today the Orungu are one of Gabon's smaller ethnic groups numbering around 10,000 people.
Culture Despite their reputation as the most prominent slave traders in the region, some visitors to the kingdom left favorable reviews of the region and its people. John Newton visited the area in 1743 and remarked that they seemed "the most humane and moral people I ever met with in Africa; and they were the people who had the least intercourse with Europe at that time". This must not have remain true for very long. As time passed, the Orungu took on European dress and customs. However, the Orungu people held strongly to their traditional beliefs and were hostile to European missionaries ; the mission at Baraka was a diplomatic manoeuvre as part of their negotiations with anti-slavery forces . As a result, few gained western educations thus limiting their influence in colonial administration or post-colonial politics of Gabon. Today , the former slaver tribe is one of Gabon's smaller ethnic groups numbering around 10,000 people.
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; the mission at Baraka was a diplomatic manoeuvre as part of their negotiations with anti-slavery forces
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the Orungu are
, the former slaver tribe is