The forests here have long been home to the Batwa, at 80,000 the largest Pygmy tribe; they are also found in Rwanda and Burundi. I visited them this past February.

They emerge from the stillness of the rain forest like a lost tribe of prehistoric warriors forgotten by time - a barefoot band of Mbuti Pygmies wielding iron-tipped spears. The men come first ...

Next Fernando had the Pygmies rate their own culture's music for its emotional quality. Across the board, the Pygmies said all their songs made them feel good — even a song composed for a funeral.

Pygmy chief Mbomba Bokenu says he may soon let loggers cut his people's forests, and all he expects in return are soap and a few bags of salt. "The Pygmies are suffering, we accept what we are ...

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At the opposite extreme, the world’s shortest people are the Efe of Zaire--one of the peoples we commonly call Pygmies--whose men and women average 4 foot 8 and 4 foot 5, respectively. If we ...

An elder of a Pygmy village cultivates the marijuana plants he secretly grows inside Virunga National Park, ... a population of around 600,000 indigenous forest people, widely known as Pygmies, ...

The tribe with the lowest height is the Bambuti, often called the Mbuti. Four groups of Ituri Pygmies, together referred to as the Bambuti, live in the Ituri Forest in the Eastern Congo (Kinshasa).