![]() And to that paradise, some 3,000 years ago, fighting brutal surf in hand-dug canoes, came the original inhabitants - the Bubi tribe. With its towering volcanic peaks, thick, green-velvet blanket of lush rain forests and distinctive black sand beaches, Bioko is indeed a picture of tropical paradise. Stanley saw it in 1884, the natural beauty of Bioko Island, to him, was "extraordinary. The name Bubi comes from the word "Boobe" meaning "Man."īioko Island: When 15th-century Portuguese explorer Fernão do Po arrived on the island of Bioko, he was so taken by its natural splendor that he named it Formosa, or "Beautiful." . They are numbering about 50,000 people and used to be the majority tribe on the Bioko Island (Fernado Po). ![]() The Bubi people, also known as Voove, Bobes, Boobes, Boobees, Adeejahs, Adijas, Ediyas, Eris, Fernando Poans, Fernandians, and Bantu Speaking Bubi, are an African ethnic matriarchal group, members of the Bantu group, who are indigenous to Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Bubi / Voove / Boobes/ Adijas / Adeejahs / Eris ![]()
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