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 ...

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 ...

The Echuya Batwa—often known as “keepers of the forest”—are an endangered tribe of forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer people. They lived peacefully off their land without any outside influence until 1991 ...

Twenty-two-year-old Alice Nyamihanda is the pride of her community of former Batwa pygmy forest-dwellers in Uganda. Her facial features reveal her origins, but her Western dress-sense and clarity of ...

History has not been kind to the Batwa, the minority community of the Great Lakes region. Whether in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo or Burundi, old or young, their misery is deep and shared, like a culture.

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 ...

Three decades since the Batwa people in Uganda were evicted from their ancestral lands to create national parks, members of the group live in poverty and marginalization at the fringes of society.

Evicted from their ancestral forest homes three decades ago in a move to conserve wildlife, many of Uganda's Batwa people struggle for a more dignified way of life. On a hike into the Bwindi ...