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	Baka (Cameroon and Gabon) information - Search.com
		The Baka, also known as Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya, or Babinga, are a Pygmy ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon, northern Congo (Brazzaville), northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic.
		The Baka of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan are an unrelated people.
		The Baka are among the oldest inhabitants of Cameroon and the neighbouring countries.
	www.search.com /reference/Baka_(nomadic_Central_African_people) (736 words)

	Pygmy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Central African Republic, at least, the term Bayaka is preferred to Pygmy, as it refers to the people and not only to their stature.
		The African Pygmies are particularly known for their vocal music, characterised by dense polyphony, group performance and improvisation.
		The African Pygmies seem not to have their own language, but rather speak the language (usually Bantu) of the surrounding non-Pygmy peoples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pygmies (731 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Baka pygmy
		The Baka, also known as Bebayaka, Bebayaga, Bibaya, or Babinga, are a Pygmy ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon, northern Congo (Brazzaville), northern Gabon, and southwestern Central African Republic.
		The Baka of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan are an unrelated people.
		Baka who marry outside of their ethnic group typically adopt the lifestyle of their non-Baka spouse, so some scholars predict that the pygmies will one day be completely assimilated into other groups.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Baka_pygmy (681 words)

	Nature and Human Development Among the Baka Pygmies
		Nonetheless, in African society the dead are perceived as continuing to show interest in the affairs of the living or surviving relatives.
		The Baka are a sub-set of the Pygmy polity in the equatorial Africa.
		Moreover, Baka mythologies, ritual techniques, social organization and systems of value significantly testify that the focus of their knowledge is upon the opportunities and limitations of their ecosystem and how they socialize in it.
	www.ignca.nic.in /ps_05020.htm (2999 words)

	Twa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Twa are a pygmy people, of short stature, who were the oldest recorded inhabitants of an area in central Africa that now comprises the nations of Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
		When the Hutu, a Bantu people, arrived in the region, they subjugated the Twa.
		Around the 15th century AD, the Tutsi, a Bantu people, subsequently arrived, possibly from Ethiopia, and dominated both the Twa and the Hutu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Twa (215 words)

	Forest Peoples Project: Africa: Batwa, Baka, Bagyeli "Pygmy" Peoples
		In these countries Forest Peoples Project is supporting indigenous communities and organisations to secure their lands and increase their access to forest through dialogue with neighbouring Bantu farming communities, and with conservation agencies, governments and regional forest planners.
		The indigenous peoples involved are the Batwa of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; Ogiek in Kenya; Maasai in Tanzania, Khomani San in South Africa, Baka in Cameroon and Gabon, Bagyeli in Cameroon and Bambendjele in Republic of Congo.
		Throughout Central Africa forest peoples experience persistent discrimination and are denied rights to lands and livelihoods, to organise and to represent themselves.
	www.forestpeoples.org /templates/project/africa_base.shtml (2073 words)

	INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE RAINFOREST
		In the popular imagination, peoples of the tropical rainforest are remote, isolated, living in more or less the same place, unchanging, 'in harmony' with their surroundings.
		Peoples anthropologists conventionally label 'hunters and gatherers' often do things other than hunting and gathering; indeed practices which may assume a critical position in terms of identity and ideology may be rather unimportant in terms of objective ecological measurements [e.g.
		How that knowledge is apprehended by people will be determined by culturally relative coordinates of sense perception which sometimes deviate sharply from the expectations of scientifically-trained personnel; for example, the significance of olfactory and textual stimuli compared with the purely visual.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Rainforest/malon.html (5116 words)

	Ethnologue: Central African Republic
		(BANDA CENTRAL SUD) [BJO] 100,000 in Central African Republic (1996); 2,000 Yakpa in Zaïre (1986 SIL).
		The Sangha River is the border with the Baka region.
		Yulu are in Central African Republic and Sudan; Binga are in Sudan and Zaïre.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Cent.html (2156 words)

	Africa Studies Videos in the Harvard Libraries
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		A documentary on the desperate plight of the Dinka people in the town of Alek in the southern Sudan.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~cafrica/videos.shtml (13729 words)

	Untitled
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		The idea that native peoples were primitive savages was altered for good with Malinowski's insight into their mastery of their world.
	www.mnstate.edu /tcufilm/TITLEB.HTM (12942 words)

	African: Videotapes & Audiocassettes: Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
		On April 29, 2002, Sara's remains were officially handed back to the South African people at an emotionally charged ceremony at the country's Embassy in Paris and, on August 9 (National Women's Day), she was ceremonially buried on the banks of the Gamtoos River.
		Viewers join the Baka by day as they harvest honey, catch fish, and use forest plants to make medicines and see them by night as legends are passed on and as a family prepares for the birth of a baby.
		The film follows Duka, from the build-up to the marriage, from the all night vigil with girlfriends, to farewells when the bride is taken away at dawn to the village of her husband's family, the arrival in the village and the preparation of the prospective bride for the ceremony by the mother-in-law.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/AfricanVid.html (11608 words)

	Baka Beyond, Tower Winchester, 11/11/98
		Meanwhile Western Banks continue to charge interest on the debts, the British and French are logging the jungle, disturbing its wildlife and gradually forcing the Baka people to give up their nomadic hunter gatherer existence and live in villages.
		Baka, Eeya Be (Elephant Song with Mercier's incredible elepant belly growl beginning), Journey, a song with plenty of mystic clout.
		Anything that keeps the burger bars at bay in West Africa, honours a centuries old tradition and gives the Baka people dignity is ok by me. And they sure kicked up a pile of campfire dust while they were at it.
	www.iowrock.demon.co.uk /clearspot/baka_beyond.html (1463 words)

	Baka Pygmies - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A people of hunters and gatherers, Baka Pygmies live in the rainforest of Cameroon, together with various ethnic groups of bantu farmers, with whom they exchange goods and have a symbiotic relationship from time immemorial.
		Like the other groups of African Pygmies (BaKola, Aka, BaBongo, BaMbuti, etc.), the Baka are traditionally nomadic, even though they are undergoing a process of sedentariness under the influence of multiple factors.
		There I could strike up a close friendship with various members of the camp, among whom the elderly progenitor (a woman expert on natural medicine and traditional songs) and her children, some fortysomething charismatic pygmy hunters who are known and respected in all the region..
	www.pygmies.info /introduction.html (219 words)

	Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The African Forest of the Great Apes, a spectacular lowland rainforest of Central Africa, stretches across regions of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
		The African Forest of the Great Apes is critical to the survival of three of our closest animal relatives; the gorilla, the chimpanzee and the bonobo are all dependent on this ancient African forest.
		Moreover, around 12 million forest-dwelling people, including the semi-nomadic Baka pygmies, depend directly on the forest for shelter, medicine, food and for their cultural and spiritual survival.
	www.greenpeace.org /seasia/en/campaigns/forests/africa (240 words)

	Hunting ban threatens Congo forest dwellers
		However, the Baka and human rights groups say this has jeopardised the Baka traditional way of life and threatens their food security.
		The Baka in the northern administrative divisions of Sangha and Likouala are divided into several subgroups, the Bambendzele being the largest.
		The Baka, whose average height is 1.5 metres, usually hunt with nets or bows and arrows.
	news.mongabay.com /2005/1031-irin.html (1172 words)

	Resources on the Baka
		The goal of the Baka project is emancipation of the Baka pygmies in theirtraditional environment â” camps in their forest.
		Indigenous Baka number 30-40000 and live in the southern and southeastern...For almost all Baka, Bagyeli and Bakola, their forest is their ancestral home,
		The Baka are renowned throughout Africa as masters ofdance and Dee took this opportunity to develop her dancing skills with them.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/african/Baka.html (1399 words)

	Baka Pygmies
		A people of hunters and gatherers, Baka Pygmies live in the rain forest of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo, together with various ethnic groups of Bantu farmers, with whom they exchange goods and have a symbiotic relationship from time immemorial.
		Within the Baka Pygmy culture, hunting is one of the most important activities, not only for its role in providing food (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon live mainly by gathering and fishing), but above all for the symbolic meanings and the prestige traditionally attached to it...
		Baka men, the only holders of Pygmies' initiation knowledge, are evasive and mysterious when they are asked about this subject.
	www.pygmies.info (815 words)

	Survival International \| related_material
		'Pygmies' are the indigenous people of the central African rainforest.
		The majority of the 'Pygmy'; people in Uganda belong to the Batwa people, who live mainly in the mountainous Kabale, Kisoro and Rukungiri Districts of the southwest.
		The people among whom they live, the Baamba and Bakonzo, have themselves been marginalised and oppressed during the last century.
	survival-international.org /related_material.php?id=20 (1249 words)

	Bread For Life Website
		The Bakas and Bayakas (otherwise known as Pygmies) are one of the most primitive and unreached tribal groups in Africa.
		However, when development comes...the forest and the people are exploited, because when the timber is gone, so are the jobs.
		For a few years BFL teams have been ministering to this whole people group, and by God’s grace we now have a church and have a pastor who also has a background in agricultural engineering stationed there.
	www.breadforlife.org /html/projects-Pygmy.html (804 words)

	The world's top list of ethnic groups websites
		Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa.
		Balkars - people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
		Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/list_of_ethnic_groups (2310 words)

	African Baka People Crowded Out by Newcomers, Loggers
		Bakas are caught between the majority Bantu and the logging companies.
		The Bakas are given little in return when they are displaced from the
		In their new settlements, the Baka people are in transition, no longer
	www.forests.org /archived_site/today/recent/1997/afrnonel.htm (587 words)

	Current Action - Global Response - Environmental Action & Education
		With limited funds available for each developing country, the World Bank should finance projects that have direct, positive impacts on nutrition, health, education, and environmentally sound development for African people - not for Exxon (whose annual profits are 40 times the budget of Chad).
		In Cameroon, the pipeline will pass through ecologically fragile rainforests, including a region where indigenous nomadic Baka and Bakola peoples (often referred to as Pygmies) rely on hunting and gathering.
		In Chad, security forces have killed over 200 people and jailed the single Parliamentarian who dared voice opposition to the pipeline (he was released after 10 months thanks to international pressure.) World citizens who face no such consequences must speak out against this project.
	www.globalresponse.org /gra.php?i=4/99 (707 words)

	Aka (Pygmy tribe) - NativeWiki
		The Aka are a wandering African pygmy people who live by hunting.
		Their complex polyphonic music has been studied by various ethnomusicologists, as Simha Arom, who made some historical field recordings of their repertoires, and as Mauro Campagnoli, who also studied in depth their musical instruments, comparing them to those of other pygmy groups (especially their neighbours, the Baka Pygmies).
		Fieldwork about Baka, Aka and other pygmy groups
	www.nativewiki.org /Aka_(Pygmy_tribe) (184 words)

	MUL 2720 : - Chapter # 7 Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		What are some of the most important basic traits common to most African musics, i.e., what elements are similar or treated in a similar fashion in the majority of African musics?
		Who makes music in various African cultures, and what does that tell you about the importance and/or status of both the musician and the music?
		What is music-making like in nomadic and semi-nomadic cultures such as the Baka or Mbuti Pygmies of the Central African (Ituri) rainforests?
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~swarfiel/MUL2720/review/Chapter7.html (483 words)

	Global Response - Current Eco-Club Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This month, environmental and human rights organizations in the Central African countries of Chad and Cameroon need your help to stop the construction of an oil pipeline that would threaten forest habitat for chimpanzees and other primates.
		Since the World Bank has limited funds for each country, it would be better to finance projects that have direct, positive impacts on nutrition, health, education and sustainable development for African people, instead of giving millions of dollars to big oil companies.
		They know that young people around the world are determined to help save the Imataca Forest and rainforests everywhere.
	www.planetmind.net /globalresponse/ECA_index/eca0499.html (840 words)

	Learn more about List of ethnic groups in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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		Uzbek - Turkic people of central Asia, Uzbekistan
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_ethnic_groups.html (1085 words)

	DreamWeaver - Our West African Trips
		The Tuareg and Fulani nomads of northern Niger are some of the last nomadic peoples who still practice their lifestyles much as they always have.
		The Cure Salee is actually celebrated by both the Tuareg and Fulani people as a sort of homecoming after their migrations far to the south during the dry season.
		The Tuareg and Fulani nomads of northern Niger are some of the last nomadic peoples who still practice their traditional lifestyles much as they always have.
	www.dreamweavertravel.net /trips.htm (4795 words)

	Ethnologue report for Cameroon
		South West Province, Kupe-Muanenguba Division, central part of Nguti Subdivision, in Nguti town and east and south of it.
		North West Province, Mezam Division, Bamenda Central Subdivision, north and east of Bamenda, either side of Ring Road, and in the mountainous circle of Menda Nkwe.
		The Mangisa people are reported to speak 2 languages: Mengisa Njowi, spoken daily and Leti, a secret language of tradition.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Cameroon (7656 words)

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