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

AFRICAN MARKET (GABON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples


African market, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Gabon)
Market in a Bantu village along a track (Gabon).

"The forest closes up behind me like a mouth. Every step takes me closer to the big track, to places where trees, animals and pygmies have been replaced by other things Ð roads, fields of crops, markets, houses..."

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

Soundscape: fragment of a Fang dance
from a small village in northern Gabon.



Photo gallery about African Pygmies and the rainforest, with soundscapes from pygmy camps and the forest.

       Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/rainforest-pygmies/photo-gallery.php?photo=87       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 22:28.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).