Luis Devin in the initiation hut during the Baka initiation rite (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).
Soundscape: sounds of the Baka initiation camp and surrounding rainforest. In the background, ritual dance with initiates shouting (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon).
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.
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.
Photo gallery of Luis Devin's field research, with soundscapes from the camps and African rainforest. Section: Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo.
Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/fieldwork/photo-diary.php?photo=12 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 20:32. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).