Cris “Cyborg” Justino will be partnering with Fight for the Forgotten (FFTF), a non-profit organization based in Oklahoma City, to help support development projects in impoverished villages in Uganda.

“Wakoze Kuza,” says Batwa pygmy Chief “Steve” Varaheegwan, welcoming us to his tribal village in the Virunga Mountains of Uganda as Herbert, the vivacious Ugandan liaison, translates. The entire Batwa ...

For thousands of years Pygmies have lived in harmony with equatorial Africa's magnificent jungles. They inhabit a narrow band of tropical rain forest about four degrees above and four degrees below ...

Removed from their forest dwellings by government authorities in order to establish the Mgahinga and Bwindi Impenetrable National Parks in Uganda, the Batwa pygmies now live in slums around Kisoro, a ...

Deep in a rain forest in Equatorial Africa, the peaceful Batwa Pygmies were once known as ‘the keepers of the forest.’ But for generations, these people, known for their unusually short height, would ...

Expelled from their ancestral homes by the creation of the Mgahinga and Bwindi Impenetrable National Parks in southwestern Uganda, the Batwa pygmies have been reduced to a small community of around ...

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