Baka Pygmies

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Baka Pygmies
Texts and photos by
Mauro Luis Devin Campagnoli

A people of hunters and gatherers, Baka Pygmies live in the rainforest of Cameroon, together with various ethnic groups of bantu farmers, with whom they exchange goods and have a symbiotic relationship from time immemorial.

Like the other groups of African Pygmies (BaKola, Aka, BaBongo, BaMbuti, etc.), the Baka are traditionally nomadic, even though they are undergoing a process of sedentariness under the influence of multiple factors. The first of these factors is massive deforestation, which deprives the Pygmies of the natural and symbolic resources essential for their biological and cultural survival.

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