There were no Batwa households represented within our sample, though displacement was raised by two non-Batwa households and is indicative of the tensions between those that were displaced, the current park authority, and the effect on their livelihoods.
Almost 20 years ago, George and his fellow Batwa were evicted from Mgahinga and the nearby Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda's southwest, when the two areas were gazetted as national parks.
The missionaries were asked what God's love could mean in this exile from their home, where the Batwa felt unable to find life's sustenance, where their children would grow up without knowing the sylvan sense of their language, songs, and prayers.
12) The government's official website claims that "[w]hile the relationship between the king and the rest of the population was unequal, the relationship between the ordinary Bahutu, Batutsi and Batwa (13) was one of mutual benefit mainly through the exchange of their labour.
Most of the previously discussed examples of actual ethnographic freaks were all hoaxes: Ota Benga, advertised as "The African Pygmy," was in reality a Central African Batwa (Adams 31-32); Sartje Baartman, displayed as "The Hottentot Venus," a woman from a San tribe (Garland Thomson 71); and P.
While we've been witnessing breakthrough gender-mixed productions in Kabul, thanks to Joanna Sherman's reportage ('04), or trekking through Uganda with Lynn Nottage to hear a chorus of Batwa pygmies sing ('05), just what have our theatrical counterparts in Europe been up to?