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RAINFOREST AND AFRICAN PYGMIES

Photo gallery with quotes from the book "The Forest Has You" and soundscapes

Plantains gathering
PHOTO: Baka girl carrying a bunch of bananas (plantains) and palm leaves for roofing a hut (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).
SOUNDSCAPE: pangolin scales crackling on the fire. In the background, Baka camp and rainforest sounds (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon)


"They will give me hot plantains and fish fresh from the streams, Atemè tells me. Boiled shrimp. Crabs. Maybe crocodile or antelope meat. Old Folì will check that I have enough to eat and then she will sit beside me, by the fire..."

Luis Devin, The Forest Has You
(La foresta ti ha - Castelvecchi/LIT Edizioni)