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Culture: Central African Republic

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AKA PYGMIES (http://www.carbon-7.com/cd/002.htm)
Includes link to sound recording of pygmy music; also links to discography and biographies.

Africa South of the Sahara: Central African Republic (http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/centralafr.html)
This web site maintains important links to business, cultural, historical, and political information on Central African Republic.

Afrika.no--Index on Africa (http://afrika.no/links/)
In French, English and Norwegian. Created by the Norwegian Council for Africa, the site has a es database searchable by country and subject with several links to news sites on CAR.

Map of the Central African Pygmy Groups; Chart of the Central African Pygmy Groups(http://www.lewis-training.com/pygmy%20groups.html)
Some photographs, chart with alternative names of the Pygmy groups as well as estimated population and location of homeland.

Mediaport.net: Central African Republic
(http://www.mediaport.net/CP/AeC/Theatre/Index%5Fe/Centrafrique%5F%5FR%5Feacute%5Fpublique%5Fde%5F.en.html)
Provides links to theater companies, events and festivals, places of performance, and other related organizations.

Music Discographies: Central Africans (http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/worldiscoaf.html#Central)
Includes listing of compact discs of Pygmy music — both vocal and instrumental – available at the University of Oregon Library.

UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World (http://www.unesco.org/culture/cdmusic/html%5Feng/caf.shtml)
Lists full description of three compact discs of Pygmy music.

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