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Baka woman tells it as it is

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Channel: bakabeyond · 2014 · Music

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Baka woman speaks out on camera for Forest Voices Tour
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In March 2014 a group of Baka musicians from the Cameroon-Congo border performed to other Baka communities around the Dja Reserve.
People from these communities were encouraged to speak to camera and this was recorded during this tour.
The Forest Voices Tour was organised by Global Music Exchange (GME) http://www.1heart.org
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For over 20 years the Cameroon authorities have been trying to persuade the Baka to move to roadside villages. They say that this is for their own good as they will then have access to better healthcare and education and can learn to be "productive members of Cameroon society.
Unfortunately the reality is very different. The woman speaking in this film is from Nomedjo near Lomié where Baka have been to school for many years. She has school qualifications, but she is marginalised and discriminated against by the farming community who see the Baka as little better than animals.
Even educated Baka, in the face of exclusion from their forest and rampant discrimination, can only look forward to at best hard labour for little or no money, at worst alcoholism and prostitution.

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