Bosobolo

Bosobolo lies in the forest-savanna country of northwestern Congo, a short distance south of the Ubangi River, which here separates the forest country from the savanna to the north. The land is low and rolling, with patches of woodland, oil palms and open grass along small streams that drain toward the Ubangi.

This was country of Ngbandi and related Ubangian-speaking communities. They farmed yams, bananas and other crops in forest clearings, gathered oil-palm products, hunted and fished, and worked iron. The Ubangi was their highway: canoe traders carried iron goods, salt, fish and farm produce between riverside villages, and the trade along the river helped spread the Ngbandi tongue that later developed into the Sango trade language. Chiefs ruled clusters of villages, and kinship and shared descent held scattered homesteads together.

The later city of Gbadolite lies here.