Planet Sahel, a borderline territory

The Sahel is a land of transition between the desert and the savannah that precedes the jungles of the south. It is a horizontal strip of land spread across more than 10 countries. It crosses the entire African continent from east to west at its widest point, and as a borderland it marks the character […]

Baaka Pygmies, forest inhabitants of Central Africa – 4/4

Pygmy peoples of Africa In this final part of the trip that we started in Chad four weeks before, we had not yet met one of the most interesting peoples and cultures in all of Africa: that of the Pygmies, particularly the Baaka or Baka. Long before the arrival of the black Bantu peoples around […]