Baka Pygmies Traditional Song - Cameroon

After tramping 70km through Nki National Park in the congo basin rainforest in Cameroon, we stayed the night at the Baka pygmy village on the outskirts of the park. One of villagers, Pierre, was our guide. The next day they performed some traditional music for me. They were infatuated with the videos i took :) It was an amazing experience.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Africa
• pygmies
• Cameroon

[MARAFSH]

Wow thanx 4 a great video!!! How would one go about setting up a hiking trip there??

[cestaley]

@MARAFSH Cheers! I'm not sure how you'd go about hiking there on your own. I went as part of an internship with my master's programme. I was put in touch with a local NGO and went into the forest as part of a wildlife reconnaissance outting. It's very tricky being a tourist in Cameroon, in the east at least. I wish I could be of more help!

[lester7c]

omg, all those kids have worms in their tummies.



[cestaley]

@lester7c No they don't have worms. They are malnourished as they don't have a lot of variety in their diet and the result is distended bellies.

[cestaley]

@lester7c No they don't have worms. They are malnourished as they don't have a lot of variety in their diet and the result is distended bellies.

[bioarcheology]

This makes me so proud as an African American and as an Anthropologist.

Keep your culture, Love yourself

Pharoah Pepi II wanted to see the dance of the Gods and you have given it to us!!!

Thank you!!!

[tamaduni]

they seem stress free and happy ---RA bless Africa

[Donnyjells]

@childofconvenant Me too, we are so much alike yet different.

[childofconvenant]

i know pygmies were in Nigeria cuz they still exist in our legends, tales "of dwarfish peoples" and if u watch Nigerian films a demon usually appears in the form of a pygmy. The modern africans are just tall people from Eastern and North Eastern Africa/Middle East the home of tall peoples and displaced these shorter blacks. Diop related in his book how the phoenicians attempted to open a colony arriving at Cameroun and were met by pygmies. I wish Cameroun and Nigeria were one nation

[childofconvenant]

pygmies were the original inhabitants of the African interrior from the West to Central and Southern for many many years. The Africans today of West and Central , the non pygmies i mean only came there recently. They came from the Nile Valley Uganda to Egypt corridor Ethiopia and Yemen to the west and displaced these pygmies and probably learned how to adopt to the environment from them.

I know this cuz pygmies are found in almoste every central african nation right up to Nigeria,

[soulfulll]

hypnotic music

[lester7c]

@cestaley google ascaris lumbricoides :D

[funkeemon]

These peoples are poor but they are so happy and they did not get hit by Wallstreet!!!!!!

That's a Bless being poor. God bless Africa and world!!!!