Scott Harrison hopes to turn charity:water into an epic brand that brings fresh water to 100 million people in need of something most of us take for granted. His journey is both inspiring and ...

Robert Siegel interviews filmmaker Lavinia Currier about the music used in her film Oka!, which depicts the journey of Louis Sarno, who traveled to the Central African Republic as an ethnomusicologist ...

"Oka!" (opening November 18 at Reading Gaslamp Theaters) is loosely based on ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno who left his New Jersey home to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa.

The human ranging style is unique among hominoids. The Mbendjele BaYaka people move from camp to camp every few months, and thus have a large lifetime range of approximately 800 square kilometers.

How do human foragers find food or the way home in rainforests, where heavy vegetation limits visibility, without a map, compass, or smartphone? Researchers show that rainforest-dwelling Mbendjele ...

Loosely based on the career of American ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno, Oka! includes real scenes of life among the fabled Bayaka pygmy people, plus scenery and wildlife from the Central African ...

The Mbendjele BaYaka are an Indigenous Congolese hunter-gatherer population, one of a number of “Pygmy” hunter-gatherer populations living in the rainforests of Central Africa. Although traditionally ...

GalleryPhotographer Thomas Nicolon visited the Bayaka, who are now part of forest protection teams in the Congo Basin. Hunting was banned when a national park was created in Congo-Brazzaville, but ...

Robert Siegel interviews filmmaker Lavinia Currier about the music used in her film Oka!, which depicts the journey of Louis Sarno, who traveled... Music Of Bayaka Pygmies Featured In New Film AUDIE ...