Documenting Ugandan history is one of the hardest asks; because Uganda has been through numerous wars, a lot about Uganda’s past has either been stolen or destroyed. Uganda, for instance, has one ...

Heritage. The main grass-thatched facility which houses several items that depict the culture of the Batwa at the heritage centre. Photos by Eve Muganga. The Batwa are an indigenous group of people ...

Eric Tumuhairwe, from the Batwa community, takes us on a trip through his ancestral forest Evicted from their ancestral forest homes three decades ago in a move to conserve wildlife, many of Uganda's ...

The Batwa people are one of the oldest surviving Indigenous tribes in Africa. They live high in the mountain forests, straddling several East African countries. The Batwa are now also called ...

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights determined that the eviction of thousands of Batwa from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the 1970s was a human rights violation. However, months later, ...

Discover the Batwa people of Uganda, known to be direct descendants of the first humans. After living peacefully isolated in the dense rainforest for thousands of years they were suddenly and forcibly ...

A recent study looks at two polarized characterizations of Indigenous people in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo: forest guardians vs. forest destroyers. The two ...

Murder, rape, arson, immolating children and mutilating corpses are among some of the rights abuses allegedly being carried out against indigenous people by the military and forest rangers at Kahuzi ...

The Batwa community in Kigezi Sub-region are up in arms against the government for not including them among the most vulnerable categories of people to receive Covid-19 relief funds. Last Friday, the ...