The Pygmies of Belgian Congo

The Congo Pygmies are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They are notable for, and named for, their short stature. They are assumed to be descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans to Central Africa, albeit substantially affected by later migrations from West Africa, from their first appearance in the historical record in the 19th century limited to a comparative small area within Central Africa, greatly decimated by the prehistoric Bantu colonizations, and to the present time widely affected by enslavement and cannibalism at the hands of neighboring Bantu groups.

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