Traditional music and dance remain central to the cultural life of many indigenous forest communities in the Congo Basin. Gatherings often feature rhythmic singing, percussion, and coordinated ...

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Over the past decade, I've visited Pygmy clans in several Congo Basin countries, witnessing the destruction of their traditional lifestyle by the Bantu, as taller Africans are widely known. On this ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A delegation of rainforest pygmies from Democratic Republic of Congo will fly to Washington this week to complain to the World Bank about its support for wholesale logging to help ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 21 (UNHCR) - Among the tens of thousands of displaced Congolese people living in camps in North Kivu province, the Pygmies are particularly vulnerable and ...

Alfonsina Mukamurenzi, 50, and her husband, Buregeya Muzungu, 60, both members of a Bambuti, or pygmy community, stand outside their hut for a portrait near the village of Mugunga, just west of the ...

Livia Simoka travels to the remote jungles of the Republic of the Congo to spend five months living with the isolated pygmy tribe the Mbendjele.

Describes the customs and way of life of the Pygmy peoples, especially the Mbuti tribe, in the rainforest of the northeast Congo ...

BENI, Congo -- Hiding in bushes, Amuzati Nzoli watched as rebel soldiers turned from killers into cannibals: his 6-year-old nephew was their victim. Accounts like the one told by the middle-aged Pygmy ...