Baka People

Their biggest community counting around 30 000 people is located in cameroon.

Baka people. Likewise the name baka is sometimes mistakenly applied to other peoples of the area who like the baka and twa have been historically called pygmies a term that is no longer considered resp. The bakas special understanding of the ecology of the forest is shown in great detail including how they use the natural chemicals of the trees as medicines and truth drugs together with the great animals of the forest elephant gorilla and golden cat. As many other representatives of the african people the baka are diminutive with the average height of 120 150 cm. The baka people inhabiting the rainforests of central africa are among them.

They are its best guardians. Aka baka efe mbuti and twa sua. The baka people do not value school as much as they value the forest boys and girls aren t taught to read and write they are taught the same. They are sometimes called a subgroup of the twa but the two peoples are not closely related.

Since the baka live in the rainforest they depend on hunting and gathering for food. They ve funded park rangers who have committed violent atrocities against the baka. They also make medicine from the forest. Wwf is trying to establish a conservation zone there without the consent of the local communities.

The baka messok dja is an area of congo rainforest which is especially rich in biodiversity. People of the rainforest baka is the extraordinarily intimate story of a baka family living a traditional life in the rainforests of cameroon. The baka people are known as the forest people because they live in the rainforest of gabon congo and cameroon. The baka people known in the congo as bayaka are an ethnic group inhabiting the southeastern rain forests of cameroon northern republic of the congo northern gabon and southwestern central african republic.