Provisionally we may limit the habitat of these little people to the equatorial regions of Africa west of the African lakes, and to that part of the continent lying south of the Zambesi River.

The Pygmy people have traditionally survived in the rainforests of countries such as the Central African Republic, the Congo and Equatorial Guinea by gathering wild foods like honey, yams, fruits ...

Equatorial Africa's rain forests have sustained Pygmies for millennia. Now other peoples are competing for the forests' resources, displacing the Pygmies. Paul Raffaele A decade ago, Wasse ...

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 ...

Why Pygmies Are Dealing Weed to Survive Indigenous communities in the Congo have harvested marijuana as long as they can remember. Now, with no land to call their own, they turn to selling—with ...

The pygmy people of central Africa - whose flesh is believed to possess magical powers - ask the UN to protect them against cannibalism.

The African country with the shortest people on the continent Many experts believe they are descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans.

Acres of Central African rainforests that indigenous Pygmy people have called home for 5,000 years are rapidly disappearing due to logging and mining. Integration efforts aimed at settling down ...

VETERAN Scots explorer Bill Forbes is planning to celebrate his 80th birthday with a tribe of pygmies in darkest Africa. He plans to fly to Nairobi later this year, then undertake a 2000-mile hike ...