Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

Two years later, a Congo Pygmy named Ota Benga was housed temporarily at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City—and then exhibited, briefly and controversially, at the Bronx Zoo. Just ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what may seem like a David-versus-Goliath contest, Pygmy forest-dwellers from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday challenged the World Bank over logging in the ...

One November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had ...

MUGUNGA, Congo -- When he dreams, Pygmy chief Byeragi Ngenderezi dreams of having basic things: a good plastic tarp, some decent fishing nets, perhaps a few garden hoes. When he dreams big, he ...

POKOLA, Republic of Congo -- For Pygmies logging the rain forests of central Africa, the chain saw's whine signals the promise of work -- and threatens a way of life. As the Republic of Congo's timber ...

Edited film: the Ekonda adopted the institution of the sacred chieftain from their neighbors, the Bolia and the Ntomba. Here we see the final stages of the celebration honoring the installation of a ...

Alfonsina Mukamurenzi, 50, and her husband, Buregeya Muzungu, 60, both members of a Bambuti, or pygmy community, stand outside their hut for a portrait near the village of Mugunga, just west of the ...

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Children of Congo Republic's pygmies will be able to attend special schools set up by retired French teachers in a plan to help fight discrimination against the forest dwellers ...

BENI, Congo -- Hiding in bushes, Amuzati Nzoli watched as rebel soldiers turned from killers into cannibals: his 6-year-old nephew was their victim. Accounts like the one told by the middle-aged Pygmy ...

Forty-six people from the ethnic Pygmy group were killed -- some of them decapitated -- on Wednesday in a suspected militant attack in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an NGO ...