KINSHASA, Congo -- Yongela Bongo hid the secret from her husband for the seven years they were married. But when he finally discovered the truth, he kicked her out on the street -- keeping their six ...

MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sixteen-year-old Elisée Nyanokonzo used to be afraid to walk alone around the streets of Mbandaka, the crumbling provincial of ...

IDJWI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - On Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo, a way of life is dying. Congo's Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous ...

Two years later, a Congo Pygmy named Ota Benga was housed temporarily at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City—and then exhibited, briefly and controversially, at the Bronx Zoo. Just ...

IDJWI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – On Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo, a way of life is dying. Congo’s Pygmies are among central Africa’s oldest indigenous ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. By Badylon Kawanda Bakiman BOLENGE, DR Congo, Apr 21 (IPS) - "Most of the houses in our villages ...

A human rights group files a complaint with the International Court in The Hague detailing abuses against Pygmies during Congo's six-year civil war. The group says an ethnic cleansing campaign by ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

For Pygmies logging the rain forests of central Africa, the chain saw's whine signals the promise of work _ and threatens a way of life. As Republic of Congo's timber industry revs up after years of ...

POKOLA, Republic of Congo -- For Pygmies logging the rain forests of central Africa, the chain saw's whine signals the promise of work -- and threatens a way of life. As the Republic of Congo's timber ...

American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. The journal advances the Association's mission through publishing articles that add to, integrate, ...

This circa 1915 photo from the American Museum journal shows a group of Pygmy men from Nala (Haut-Uele, northeastern Congo) posing with bows and arrows. (American Museum of Natural History via ...