Photo gallery with soundscapes and quotes from the book The Forest Has You

PYGMY PEOPLES & AFRICAN RAINFOREST

Hunter-gatherers from Central Africa

PHOTO INDEX

Gathering in the forest (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)

Pygmy pirogue on a river (Baka Pygmies, Gabon)

Pygmy with antelope (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)

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.

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From the author's fieldwork experience among the Baka:

The Forest Has You. Story of an Initiation
by Luis Devin
Italian edition: La foresta ti ha. Storia di un'iniziazione
(Castelvecchi - LIT Edizioni)

A true story from the heart of Africa,
a journey into an unknown world,
among leaf huts, spirits of the forest
and the initiation rites of the Baka Pygmies.

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Book about African Pygmies: The Forest Has You - Story of an Initiation, by Luis Devin

African Pygmies and Tropical Rainforest - Photos, music and sounds.

Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/rainforest-pygmies/ Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin.
The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka and the other Pygmy peoples live, is 04:42.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).