Great Lakes Twa
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The Great Lakes Twa, also known as Batwa, Abatwa or Ge-Sera, are a Bantu speaking group native to the African Great Lakes region on the border of Central Africa and East Africa. As an indigenous pygmy
Mutwa with traditional bow and arrow
Batwa women with traditional pottery
A traditional dance of the Batwa
Mutwa boy in the village Shasha in North Kivu during 2007 conflicts
Pygmy peoples
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In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature for populations in which adult me
Great Lakes Twa
…Abatwa or Ge-Sera, are a Bantu speaking group native to the African Great Lakes region on the border of Central Africa and East Africa. As an indigenous pygmy people, the Twa are generally assumed to be the oldest surviving population of the Great Lakes region. Current populations of Great Lakes Twa people live in…
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A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village
African pygmies and a European visitor, c. 1921
Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest