The “Congo Pygmies” were subjected to public viewing, and when the public was not around, were studied and measured by scientists – racial anthropologists – who declared the “specimens ...

Congo's mining registry said the map they’re ... But this comes as little comfort to communities in the reserve. Wendo Olengama, a Pygmy chief, said the influx of thousands of people into ...

The ethnographic focus is on Baka (Pygmies) and their Bantu-speaking neighbours living side by side in the rainforest of the north-western Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). Their current attitudes to ...

Pygmies from the ethnic Twa group regularly come into conflict with Bantus who regard them as second-class citizens. Tensions between them stretch back to before DR Congo gained independence from ...

After their famous encounter in what is now Tanzania, Stanley accepted a commission from the notorious King Leopold II of Belgium to explore the Congo region. During his explorations Stanley heard of ...

To reach the Equatorial Forest and meet Pygmy tribes, they continued their trip on pirogues along the Sangha River, a tributary of the Congo River, and landed in Gandicolo, in the Haute Sangha region.