Editing Gabon (section)

=== Pre-colonisation ===
[[African Pygmies|Bambenga]] in the area were largely replaced and absorbed by [[Bantu peoples|Bantu]] tribes as they migrated. By the 18th century, a [[Myene language|Myeni]]-speaking kingdom known as the [[Orungu Kingdom|Kingdom of Orungu]] formed as a trading centre with the ability to purchase and sell slaves, and fell with the demise of the slave trade in the 1870s.<ref name="Gates, page 1468">*{{cite book |author=Gates, Henry Louis & Kwame Anthony Appiah |title=Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience |publisher=Basic Civitas Books |location=New York City |year=1999 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi/page/1468 1468] |isbn=0-465-00071-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/africanaencyclop00appi/page/2095 }}</ref>