They are bambinga, not truly humans, they have no civilization." This belief that Pygmies are less than human is common across equatorial Africa. They "are marginalized by the Bantu," says David ...

As infants, pygmy marmosets babble the way human babies do, both to get their parents’ attention and to learn the group dialect. They don’t often deign to eat fruit, but they do hunt insects ...

The ethnographic focus is on Baka (Pygmies) and their Bantu-speaking neighbours living side by side in the rainforest of the north-western Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). Their current attitudes to ...

The Aka Pygmies living in the south-west region of the Central African Republic have developed a distinctive vocal musical tradition, which involves a complex type of contrapuntal polyphony based on ...

As infants, pygmy marmosets babble the way human babies do, both to get their parents’ attention and to learn the group ...