The Ba’Aka Adventure – Part 4
Monday, February 18th, 2008The highlight of the trip with the Ba’Aka was seeing Rod hand over three large bundles of Central African Francs to Louis for distribution to the Ba’Aka that joined us, the other adults in the village and for funding their water well, medicines and other needs. We came to CAR as a group because our mutual interest in seeing hunters and gatherers in their real setting and to help a much neglected tribe. They certainly taught us a lot about how their traditional way of life and we were able to show them that there may be a possibility for them to maintain this way of life in conjunction with living in the modern world in a way that is satisfying for them. The trip was experimental and although there are some things that need to be ironed out for it to become repeatable I think it was a huge success for the Ba’Aka as well as us.
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