African Pygmies
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The African Pygmies are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They are divided into three roughl
Baka dancers in the East Province of Cameroon (2006)
Aka mother and child, Central African Republic (2014)
Congo Pygmy father and son (Belgian Congo at War, 1942)
Pygmy family posing with a European man for scale (Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921)
Bantu peoples
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The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct Indigenous African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages are native to countries spread over a vast are
Reconstructing the dispersal of Bantu-speaking populations.
The Bantu Kingdom of Kongo, c. 1623
Unmarried Zulu women in Southern Africa
Zulu men dressed in traditional aprons, carrying ceremonial weapons.