A Bakoya Pygmy woman cooks in her village, Ibea, near Mekambo in Gabon’s northeastern Ogooué-Ivindo province. The area was visited by a team conducting a census of the Bakoya, a largely undocumented, forest-dwelling indigenous group, in order to secure their voting and other civic rights. The census is part of a project sponsored by the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) through a local non-governmental organization.