Ashango

Ashango, a tribe of Western Equatorial Africa, inhabiting a thickly-wooded plateau (1000 to 1500 feet) south of the Ogowé, 230 miles from the Atlantic coast. They are great slave-holders, are very superstitious, and are broken up into several sub-tribes. Among these are the Obongo, a race of hairy, yellow-skinned dwarfs, whose average height does not exceed 4 feet 4 inches. See Du Chaillu, A Journey to Ashango-Land (1867).