The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central...
56 KB (6,435 words) - 20:45, 19 August 2024
with the African Pygmies, the hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin (comprising the Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa). The terms "Asiatic Pygmies" and "Oceanic...
55 KB (5,652 words) - 18:16, 26 August 2024
: 355 : 40 It may also be known as the Pygmy or African Pygmy. It is quite different and separate from the British Pygmy breed. Between about 1930 and 1960...
8 KB (748 words) - 11:18, 22 April 2024
Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon) (redirect from Baka pygmies)
historically called pygmies, a term that is now considered derogatory. Baka people are all hunter-gatherers, formerly referred to as pygmies, located in the...
23 KB (2,934 words) - 00:24, 4 August 2024
The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West Africa...
54 KB (5,996 words) - 23:14, 25 August 2024
The African pygmy falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus)—or simply pygmy falcon—is a diminutive raptor native to eastern and southern Africa. It is the sole...
12 KB (1,369 words) - 21:37, 21 July 2024
The African pygmy hedgehog is either of two closely related hedgehogs: Domesticated hedgehog Four-toed hedgehog This page is an index of articles on animal...
507 bytes (61 words) - 02:17, 10 June 2021
Mbuti people (redirect from Mbuti pygmies)
uconn.edu African Pygmies Hunter-Gatherers of Central Africa, with photos and soundscapes Stephanie McCrummen, "Lured Toward Modern Life, Pygmy Families...
22 KB (2,079 words) - 11:16, 12 August 2024
Pygmy music refers to the sub-Saharan African music traditions of the Central African foragers (or "Pygmies"), predominantly in the Congo, the Central...
12 KB (1,420 words) - 11:52, 22 April 2024
West African hunter-gatherers, West African foragers, or West African pygmies dwelled in western Central Africa earlier than 32,000 BP and dwelled in West...
36 KB (4,113 words) - 20:24, 11 August 2024
Aka people (redirect from Aka pygmies)
the Forest: Music of the Central African Pygmies (Ellipsis Arts, 1995), BOYOBI: Ritual Music of the Rainforest Pygmies (Louis Sarno, 2000), and Bayaka:...
13 KB (1,448 words) - 20:43, 19 August 2024
Great Lakes Twa (category African Pygmies)
speaking group native to the African Great Lakes region on the border of Central and East Africa. As an indigenous pygmy people, the Twa are generally...
16 KB (1,567 words) - 15:23, 28 July 2024
Effacer le tableau (redirect from Pygmy genocide)
slate") was the operational name given to the genocide of the Bambuti pygmies by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In 2002...
9 KB (752 words) - 20:03, 25 August 2024
The African pygmy mouse (Mus minutoides) is one of the smallest rodents. It is widespread within sub-Saharan Africa, and is kept as a pet in other parts...
4 KB (463 words) - 23:57, 12 August 2024
The African pygmy goose (Nettapus auritus) is a perching duck from sub-Saharan Africa. It is the smallest of Africa's waterfowl, and one of the smallest...
11 KB (1,151 words) - 23:27, 15 November 2023
Twa (category African Pygmies)
Mutwa—singular) are a group of indigenous Central African forager tribes. These cultural groups were formerly called Pygmies by European writers, but the term is no...
13 KB (1,345 words) - 18:20, 13 August 2024
The term Congo Pygmies (African Pygmies) refers to "forest people" who have, or recently had, a hunter-gatherer economy and a simple, non-hierarchical...
13 KB (1,504 words) - 22:46, 31 May 2024
The African pygmy squirrel (Myosciurus pumilio) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Myosciurus. It is found...
7 KB (977 words) - 11:56, 4 July 2024
Ota Benga (category African Pygmies)
Phillips Verner traveled to Africa, under contract from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to bring back an assortment of pygmies to be part of an exhibition...
29 KB (3,513 words) - 09:23, 26 August 2024
Negrito (redirect from Asian pygmies)
complexion. (Historically, the label Negrito has also been used to refer to African pygmies.) The appropriateness of bundling peoples of different ethnicities...
20 KB (2,148 words) - 07:16, 25 August 2024
flight. The African pygmy kingfisher is distributed widely in Africa south of the Sahara, where it is a common resident and intra-African migrant. It...
9 KB (982 words) - 23:39, 20 March 2024
Mbuti mythology (redirect from Pygmy mythology)
"Children of the Forest: Africa’s Mbuti Pygmies", page 120, by Kevin Duffy African Pygmies Culture and mythology of Pygmies, with photos and ethnographic...
3 KB (363 words) - 06:13, 7 July 2024
Jean-Pierre Hallet (redirect from Pygmy Kitabu)
the Efé (Bambuti) pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest. He wrote the 1964 autobiographical book, Congo Kitabu, the 1973 ethnologic book Pygmy Kitabu (a more detailed...
16 KB (1,873 words) - 22:16, 25 November 2023
also participated in a study on the adaptive evolution of Western African Pygmies and three neighboring Bantu-speaking agricultural populations with...
36 KB (4,150 words) - 20:13, 8 November 2023
media related to Central Africa. Afrique Centrale.org Africa Interactive Map from the United States Army Africa African Pygmies—Among the earliest inhabitants...
39 KB (3,659 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2024
Genetically, African pygmies have some key difference between them and Bantu peoples. Evidence suggests that, when compared to other Sub-Saharan African populations...
17 KB (1,690 words) - 04:48, 18 November 2023
society in the various African countries that they live in and are seen as untouchables. Racially-motivated attacks occur on Pygmies including rape and cannibalization...
65 KB (7,366 words) - 23:11, 8 July 2024
c. 30,000 years ago. 'Central African hunter-gatherers' or 'Rain forest hunter-gatherers' (Pygmies) of Central Africa, represented by the Biaka and Mbuti;...
150 KB (16,057 words) - 03:16, 8 July 2024
indigenous African peoples spans thousands of years and includes a complex variety of cultures, languages, and political systems. Indigenous African cultures...
12 KB (1,386 words) - 01:32, 27 August 2024
Efé people (redirect from Efe pygmies)
semi-nomadic pygmies to continue living in the protected Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Ituri Forest. The Efe are one of three groups of pygmies, collectively...
21 KB (2,919 words) - 12:03, 4 April 2024