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

BAKA PYGMIES - PLAYING CHILDREN (CAMEROON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples


Playing children, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)
Baka girl outside a leaf hut (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).

"Scent of resin burning with the wood. And round huts, completely covered with leaves. And children. Children everywhere, playing between the huts: laughing, crying, singing and clapping their hands..."

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

Soundscape: Baka children speaking and, in the background,
elderly woman singing a jodel lullaby (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon).



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=21       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 03:16.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).