Indigenous Bakoya Pygmies play music during a welcome ceremony for a census team visiting their village of Ibea, near Mekambo in Gabon’s northeastern Ogooué-Ivindo province. The team, sponsored by the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) through a local non-governmental organization, is conducting a census of the largely undocumented, forest-dwelling Bakoya in order to secure their voting and other civic rights.