We've barely entered the national park when our guide stops suddenly and holds up a hand to call for silence. His eyes gaze deep into the forest and he crouches. We do the same. Our hearts beat fast.

NOT long after my settlement at Ndombe, the town of a remarkable monarch of the same name, the king of the Balunda tribes around Wissmann Falls, Central Africa, an odd-looking creature came up to my ...

Down the foothills of Bwindi and Mugahinga impenetrable forests lives a small community of the Batwa Pygmies. The pygmies are a minority ethnic group belonging to the bushman family who formerly lived ...

Today, it is a common belief among some sections of the public that Bakiga are brave people. But to the Batwa (pygmies), fighting the Bakiga was not as hard or dangerous as hunting a buffalo or lion.

Nairobi — Hagumimana Kanyabichingi epitomises the once proud and independent Batwa Pygmies (also known as the Twa or forest people) who following evictions from the Lake Region forests of western ...

Sabiti Mufupi, 50, is proud he is an indigenous Batwa pygmy, although some people look down on him and his clansmen because they are short and in most cases small in size. Mufupi, who lives in Kasese ...

Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - The Batwa, an ethnic group which represents about 2% of population in Burundi, is a community still strongly discriminated against in a country that was torn apart by a ...

KISORO, UGANDA — 20 years ago Uganda's Batwa, or pygmies, were evicted from the forest to make way for a national park. But now the impoverished Batwa are being allowed back as tour guides, showing ...

Marsha Conn plans to help Batwa pygmies make art for profit. The Batwa need the income because their old ways of making a living have been denied them. Worse, they have to reshape their culture to fit ...

Makara the silverback was clearly having a bad day. As soon as he saw us, he rushed forwards with a piercing scream, waving his fist in the air. Our guide somehow stood his ground and raised his ...

In the rainforests of Africa, being small is so helpful that it evolved twice in separate groups. Luis Barreiro of the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, and his colleagues identified 16 ...