Batwa

Examples

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• Most of my people, the Batwa, don't engage in any way with the type of poetry published in this magazine because when it comes down to poetry and food, survivors choose food.

  Academic text (2010)

• Most Batwa children couldn't bear the discrimination against them and dropped out; this continues today.

  Academic text (2010)

• You've got these Batwa very upset.

  Gorillas in the Mist (1988)

• That's what the Batwa say.

  Gorillas in the Mist (1988)

• After the fair, Verner brought a group of these Batwa people back to their village and set up a camp nearby that he called Mt. Washington.

  Academic text (2007)

• Rwanda has been populated since the 8th century B.C. by the Batwa, a pygmy population who lived principally by hunting and gathering.

  Academic text (2006)

• The Batwa are not a people without poetry; that is far from true. However, we have been forced by the socioeconomic realities we face to articulate our poetry differently.

  Academic text (2010)

• The Batwa are the original inhabitants of East Central Africa, first colonized by the agriculturalist Hutus at the turn of the first millennium, later by the cattle-herding Tutsis in the 1400s.

  Academic text (2010)

• The Batwa people have unique customs that reflect their deep connection to the forest.

• Many Batwa in Central Africa maintain traditional practices that honor their ancestors.

Synonyms

T

Twa

vsBatwa

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A person from a Central African forest community who lives by hunting and gathering

is identified by forest dwelling cultural traditions rather than mainly by subsistence

Surface Forms

Etymology