Yambio

Yambio lies in the wooded country of western Equatoria, in a region associated with the Azande. Their homesteads traditionally included sleeping huts, raised granaries and shrines where offerings honoured ancestral spirits. From the later eighteenth century the Avongara ruling lineage expanded eastward from the Mbomu basin, bringing diverse communities into Zande kingdoms. The region's forests and streams lie between the great drainage systems of the Nile and Congo.