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

BAKA PYGMIES - PYGMY GUITAR (CAMEROON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples


Pygmy guitar, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)
A recent Pygmy reinterpretation of a guitar (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).

"Con quell'aria trasandata e distratta è piuttosto un artista. Un grande seduttore, tra l'altro. L'età precisa non la sa nemmeno lui, perché qui nessuno perde tempo a contare gli anni o i mesi o altre cose inutili..."

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


Soundscape: Baka arched harp. In the background, sounds
and voices of a rainforest camp (Pigmei Baka del Camerun).




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=90       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 09:33.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).