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

RAINFOREST WATERFALLS (GABON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples

Rainforest waterfalls, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Gabon)

Rain forest waterfalls (Gabon).

"Wherever you are, you hear its voice. Its smell. Its breath. Even if you wanted to, you cannot hide, because it has eyes everywhere. Little by little it transforms you. It swallows you up and begins to absorb you. It digests you. The forest."

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

Soundscape: river rapids and surrounding rainforest sounds.

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Tropical rain forest
at sunset

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African
market

The author:

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.

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From the author's fieldwork experience among the Baka:

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

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.

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Book about African Pygmies: The Forest Has You - Story of an Initiation, by Luis Devin

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=86 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 04:45.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).