Learn About the Culture of the Remaining Pygmies of Uganda.

Some call the the Batwa ,other call them the Bambuti and others call them the originals of Africa.Stone Age disappeared in more than 1000 years ago in Africa, but to my surprise, in some place of Africa and Uganda in particular, some societies are still in Stone Age era.

If you are a book maniac like me, I may think that you have ever read about the pygmies in Africa.

Uganda is among the counties where pygmies are still found. These are found in the districts of Bundibugyo and Kisoro in Western Uganda. While these districts are a far apart, the pygmies in these places behave in the same way.

For example their way of leaving is the same. Those who are found in Bundibugyo district are called the Bambuti and those who are in Kisoro are called the Batwa.

Although those who are found in Kisoro have a bigger group that leave in Rwanda and Burundi,their behavior still takes them to that period of stone age.
Their way of leaving depends mostly on hunting, gathering and begging. Although they are not leaving a nomadic life, they cannot use their land for any use like cultivation and grazing.

They are the most primitive in any way and it is of recent that they were forced to come out of the forest they were leaving in.

Their language in not even known by the people who are leaving near them. In a place like Bundibugyo, they are leaving in a camp where the government and the none governmental organizations are feeding them and may be in future they will change their way of leaving.

But I still dought this because these people don't intermarry with other people because those who leave near them despise them and for that matter unless the government takes decisive actions, nothing will change their way of leaving in the near future.

About the Author

Twinomugisha Charles is a Retired Tour and Travel Guide in Millennium Tours and Travel Company in Uganda and now works with E-Office Management a company that deals in Computers and Computer Accessories. More of his articles can be found at The Pygmies of Uganda the Bambuti and at The Culture of Uganda People in Afica