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Afghan and Cameroonian immigrants stood together Tuesday at CASA’s headquarters in Hyattsville to face a problem they share.
When most 18-year-olds envision their future, few imagine carrying heavy loads through dense equatorial forest. Yet for ...
The street children phenomenon is found in French-speaking Africa. Although different names are used to describe them, they all refer to the same precarious reality.
Nigeria has over 250,000 refugees in Libya, South Sudan, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and other parts of the world. Conversely, at ...
The force within the forest is called Agengi, the god of pygmies everywhere. Whether they are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, or here in Cameroon, Chief Arweh tells me they can come to the ...
Cameroon is home to about 40,000 Baka Pygmies, or about one-fifth of Africa's Pygmy population, according to the London-based group Survival International. In Yaoundé, ...
Astonishingly, it’s now clear from archeological evidence that this arrangement could have arisen only within the last few thousand years, since it was around 2000 b.c. that black farmers speaking ...
Cameroonian Pygmies uprooted from forests they lived in for 5,000 years Pygmy communities left homeless due to logging, ... YAOUNDE, Cameroon.
In Cameroon, thousands of Pygmies, Mbororo and Kirdis, considered indigenous people, are protesting against the country’s Anglophone separatists on August 9, World Indigenous Peoples Day.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon . Residing in the forest areas of Central and West Africa and known as the shortest people in the world, Pygmies are still seeking to preserve their culture of hunting that has ...