Ndongo playing a leaf

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Channel: bakabeyond · 2014 · Travel & Events

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Ndongo guided us up the track from Gbiné where loggers have built a dam over the stream, stagnating a water source and allowing access to vehicles which bring chain saws and workers to remove all the large trees from the area. These trees have been a source of food and medicine for the Baka for thousands of years and they are being destroyed so quickly.

On the way Ndongo made sort of mouth harp from a leaf and began to play as we walked. We interviewed him about the situation and we hope to have translations from Baka to French/English finished very soon.

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