Observations, facts, etc...

• Most houses don't have electricity and running water. For that reason people bathe, wash clothes, dishes and cars in the same pond or river. It's nothing unusual to see a grown man, with or without clothes on, washing his car along the road in the middle of the day.
• Mortality rate is fairly big. On average, once a week a worker comes to our office saying someone in his family died. The company gives them money if a member of the closest family dies. Young children are most often the victims of various diseases, caused by a lack of hygiene. They also receive a bag or two of cement, for the funeral. There are two stories why they are making concrete graves: the first one is so they can stop the spread of the plague; the second is connected to the belief that if you injured certain part of your body, or you have a constant pain in it, you will get well if you eat the healthy part of another human being. Thus, many graves have been desecrated before, so now they decided to protect their deceased.  
• Equatorial Guinea is polygamist county. It is customary for a man to have more than one woman. For that reason, the power of matriarchy prevails.
• One of the ways to show that you are a good men-friends (no matter how old are you) is to hold hands.

     

• The majority of people outside few "urban" areas are hunter/gatherers. Older people are sent into the forest (it's less unfortunate if they don't come back). Due to the lack of electricity, they eat almost everything raw.
• People do not believe in HIV, AIDS, hepatitis and etc. If they are ill, they ask advice from the local "curandero or curandilo"(im not sure about the spelling) - a witchdoctor or a sorcerer, who is the most respected member of the tribe.
• They believe that an albino kid is a "godsend". They are very rare (I've seen a couple). They have all the facial characteristics of an Africans, but, in my opinion, look like someone peel of their skin - they are reddish-white. I've been told that they, unfortunately, don't live long.