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

BAKA PYGMIES - FOREST PRODUCTS (CAMEROON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples


Forest products, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)
A Baka woman returning from the forest with what she has gathered (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).

"Mysterious leaf parcels. Yawè lays them out on the ground and opens them slowly, a little at a time, to create an atmosphere of suspense... Her hands loosen the knots. The wrapped leaves open. Each leaf contains wonders that only a Baka could truly understand..."

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

Soundscape: voices in a Baka camp. In the background, insects
and birds of the surrounding rainforest (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=26       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 04:28.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).