1. Bakola boy.

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Portraits

Bakola men, women and children

(BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon)

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

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Soundscape: camp in the Cameroonian rainforest
at sunset; in the background, cylindrical single-skin
drum and rainforest sounds (Bakola Pygmies of Cameroon).

2. Bakola child on the threshold of a mud hut. Camps and Huts

3. Bakola man.

4. Bakola woman performing a female polyphony. Music and dances

5. Bakola woman with an elaborate headdress.

6. Bakola man in front of a canopy of leaves.

7. Bakola child with wet face, while he is washed in a plastic basin.

8. Bakola children in a rainforest camp.

Thematic links and insights:

Portraits of Baka men (Baka Pygmies)
Portraits of Baka women (Baka Pygmies)
Portraits of Bedzan men and women (Bedzan Pygmies)
Portraits of Bakoya women (Bakoya Pygmies)
Portraits of Aka men and women (Aka Pygmies)
Portrait galleries (Baka, Bakola, Bedzan, Bakoya and Aka
and other peoples from the African rainforest)


	The author: Music anthropologist and writer, he has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka Pygmies and other forest peoples, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade. www.luisdevin.com www.facebook.com/LuisDevin


	HOME SECTION INDEX BACK Photo potraits (Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmy people), with soundscape and descriptive notes (BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon). Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/bakola-bagyeli/portraits.php Photos, videos and sounds are available for licensing, both for multimedia use and paper publications. For the terms and conditions, contact the author from the Contact page. The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the BaKola-BaGyeli Pygmy people live, is 00:07. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Other Pygmy Peoples section index Copyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved.