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	Baka Pygmies
		Baka Pygmies rite of initiation to the Spirit of the Forest
		The new Baka Pygmies website, designed and maintained by the Italian anthropologist Mauro Campagnoli, contains over one hundred and a half photos about the life and the traditional activities of this Pygmy group, and some ethnographic descriptions serving as introduction to the Baka Pygmy culture.
		A special thank goes to the Baka Pygmies who make it possible to the author to live in the rainforest and to do his anthropological fieldwork in their camps.
	www.maurocampagnoli.com /baka (669 words)

	Nature and Human Development Among the Baka Pygmies
		The Baka are a sub-set of the Pygmy polity in the equatorial Africa.
		One of the most important differences between the Baka pygmies and their Bantu associates is the fact that they owe their total existence to the countless natural resources which nature has endowed on their habitat, the rain forest.
		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)

	CULTURAL DIVERSITY AMONG AFRICAN PYGMIES
		Baka are unique by comparison to the three other forager groups as only 2 of the 15 ethnic groups with whom Baka have social and economic relations speak languages from the same linguistic family.
		Consequently, the Baka and Aka are often described as speaking their own language, which is unintelligible to their farming neighbors, while the Mbuti and Efe are often said not to have a language of their own, which means they speak the same or similar language of their farming neighbors.
		The nature of Baka spear hunting is presumably similar to Efe bow hunting because the sexual division of labor is separate rather than cooperative and forest camps are close to villages.
	www.vancouver.wsu.edu /fac/hewlett/cultdiv.html (8219 words)

	Baka Pygmies - Music and musical instruments
		The music and the dances are among the most important and essential aspects of the Baka culture.
		In fact, the music is present in almost all Pygmies' life moments, from healing to initiation rituals, from traditional tales to group games, from hunting propitiating songs to entertainment moments.
		Many of the instruments used by the Baka Pygmies come from the exchange they had with bantu peoples living on the edge of the forest.
	www.pygmies.info /baka/music.html (226 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		For the Baka pygmies, however, the position of the south-eastern settlement is more ambiguous: too accessible for loggers, but too remote for the benefits of modern life to make themselves felt.
		About 40,000 indigenous pygmies live in the forests of south and east Cameroon, their lives much the same as those of their ancestors from the pre-colonial era.
		But, the relative isolation of the Baka means that most have practically no access to modern health care or formal education, and that they neither speak nor read French, one of the two official languages of Cameroon.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=28557 (545 words)

	Nature and Human Development Among the Baka Pygmies
		The Baka are a sub-set of the Pygmy polity in the equatorial Africa.
		One of the most important differences between the Baka pygmies and their Bantu associates is the fact that they owe their total existence to the countless natural resources which nature has endowed on their habitat, the rain forest.
		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.
	ignca.nic.in /ps_05020.htm (2999 words)

	The Baka Project, Cameroon, West Africa - for the Baka Pygmies
		The goal of the project is emancipation of the Baka Pygmies in their traditional environment — camps in their forest.
		The project is active in the regions of Djoum and Kribi in the South Province of Cameroon.
		The Baka are traditionally semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers that live in the tropical rainforest of south-eastern and southern Cameroon.
	baka.sitewala.net /english (209 words)

	La Stampa - This is how I became a Pygmy
		A group of young Baka Pygmies, who live in the South of Cameroon, almost near the border of Congo: they are Mauro Campagnoli's «brothers» and are from the same clan he has become part of after the initiation.
		Besides, Pygmies are decimated by many viral diseases (AIDS is one of them) which make their traditional medicine useless and of which they are often unaware.
		Mauro Campagnoli is the first white man to be allowed by the Baka Pygmies, a group of Pygmies living in Cameroon's Southeastern forests, to take part in an exceptional rite of initiation - i.e.
	www.maurocampagnoli.com /publ/lastampa1_en.html (1781 words)

	African Tribes - Pygmies People
		Pygmy Music The original inhabitants of the Ituri Forest of Zaire are the Bambuti Pygmies.Traditional music among the Pygmies is vocal and rich in polyphonic harmony.
		Pygmies are hunters and gatherers, and Pygmy songs describe life, hunting, and survival.
		Pygmy Music is perhaps best described as bursts of harmonic yoldeling, intertwining in a dynamic, rhythmic fashion.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/pygmies.htm (622 words)

	BAKA BEYOND
		All the royalties due to the Baka for both their performances and their songs have been collected for them and in September 1996 we at last gained charitable status for this money which will be used to help the Baka maintain their forest and their lifestyle in a rapidly changing world.
		Martin and Su returned to stay with the Baka in January 1998 to further discuss with them what projects can be undertaken with money so far raised.
		We are presently funding trips to deliver urgent tools and supplies to the Baka, to complete the construction of their music house, to build a medical centre and to further discuss with them future development projects.
	www.bakabeyond.net /Baka_one_heart.html (546 words)

	For Cameroon's pygmies, no forest is impenetrable enough
		The traditional way of life of hunter-gatherers known as pygmies is threatened not only by the presence of loggers but by the failure to identify them as a part of the forest ecosystem.
		With no telephone connection to the outside world, and a single access road that is little more than a forest trail, the village of Lomie might as well be situated at the other side of the earth as far as many Cameroonians are concerned.
		Ironically, the poor treatment which many pygmies receive also discourages them from enrolling their children in schools - the very thing that would help end this cycle of discrimination.
	www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_10269.html (757 words)

	Baka Pygmies
		The new website about Baka Pygmies, designed and maintained by the Italian
		ethnographic descriptions serving as introduction to the Baka Pygmy culture.
		A special thank goes to the Baka Pygmies who make it possible to the author
	www.maurocampagnoli.com /baka/music.html (210 words)

	DGDC - The minister - Press Releases
		On Tuesday 9 September 2003, the Minister for Development Cooperation received a representative of the Baka pygmy community from Meyos Obam (Cameroon) who had come to draw the minister's attention to his village and fellow countrymen.
		In September 2002, various proposals were put forward in an identification study financed by the Belgian Cameroon Fund with a view to helping the Baka pygmy community.
		This will finally make it possible for the promises made to the Baka pygmy community back in 2002 to be fulfilled.
	www.dgci.be /en/the_minister/press_releases/20030909.html (441 words)

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