AKA Pygmie (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.
Baptist Mid-Missions: Central African
Republic (http://www.bmm.org/Fields/car.html)
Brief overview of country, mission activities in past, and current challenges.
Forestry Information - Central African Republic (http://www.forestworld.com/public/country/CentralAfricanRepublic/CentralAfricanRepublic%5Ffd.html)
Provides brief description of rain forest, its importance to Pygmy life, and
the forestry sector’s contribution to the economy of the Central African
Republic.
Freedom
in the World: Central African Republic (http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2001/countryratings/central.htm)
Presented by Freedom House, two pages of text give an overview, including the
country’s colonial history and independence, economic problems and social
unrest, political rights and civil liberties, recent elections, and other topics.
International
Census Collection Holdings, University of Texas at Austin - Central
African Republic
(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/pcl/icc/africa/middle/cen.html)
Bibliography of printed volumes in the University library collections, devoted
to primarily housing and population censuses in the CAR.
Languages of Central African Republic (http://www.ethnologue.com/)
Provides such information as “alternate names, number of speakers, location,
dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic information.”
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.
Ministry of Youth and Sports (http://membres.lycos.fr/rcamasseka/)
Links to related primary sites, includes form to email Minister.
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.
Sango language Page (http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Sango%5Froot.html)
Provides brief overview of classification of Sango, estimates of numbers of speakers,
usage and orthographic status.
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.
William Coupon - The Pygmy
of Bayanga (http://www.williamcoupon.com/21/pygmy.html)
Nine photographs of several of the Pygmy people who live along the Sangha River;
includes brief text. |