⁣With soft guttural whoops and a tickle of the water, a pygmy man in Central Africa plucks a fish from the river with his bare hands. Another hunter releases a crude arrow into the canopy above. A monkey falls from the trees, shot directly through the heart. Eyes still bulging from the shock, the hunter quickly slots the monkey’s tail under its lolling neck to make a neat bag of his bush meat. It’s skills like these that have allowed the pygmies to live in the rainforest of Cameroon for generations. But now they’re facing stiff competition for their forest range.
With only 7% of the rainforest here protected, there are rich pickings for the loggers. Now logging tracks have spread like spiderwebs through the forest, leaving the pygmies exposed. Perversely, conservationists are also gnawing away at the pygmies' land. Wildlife reserves patrolled by anti-poaching patrols leave just 1% of the forest available for the pygmies. Emile, an old hunter, bemoans the coming of the white men.“Because there’s this protected zone we don’t have enough to hunt. We were forest people, now we’re beggars.”
Caught between two worlds, the pygmies are making their choice. “'Before we used to live in the forest. Then the tall people came and said you can’t live like this. Before, we always used to run away and hide. Then we said this is getting us nowhere and we left the forest.” The pygmies are reaching out, demanding schools and health clinics. Now many families have abandoned their nomadic lifestyle, settling around mission schools.
Yet outside the forest the Pygmies are struggling to find their place. They are forced into jobs that only serve the whites or the Bantu, the predominant black tribe in the area. They’re losing their identity and are being treated like bonded labour, paid with alcohol, food and cast-off clothing. Ironically, many also find work with the logging companies themselves. Hacking down their forest home for a few cents per tree. In a state of rapid cultural transition they don’t know which way to jump. Their culture grates with the loggers’ work ethics. At the local sawmill their ways are tolerated but not respected. “It’s difficult to work with pygmies. When the hunting season or harvest time comes, they simply leave .You can't rely on them. When people won’t change their mentality they can’t be integrated in the workplace' moans the French sawmill manager. Working for hunters is the only other employment around. Tourists pay $20,000 a week to have the pygmies lead them to the prize prey of elephants and gazelles. Its easy work for the pygmies but it’s killing their land as well. The hunters' guns spell danger to the region's elephants.
Back in the forest, in their traditional leaf huts, a band of pygmies try to live as they used to. Their children line up to have their canine teeth filed - the pain is worth it, they say, for this mark of pygmy beauty. The men hunt, the women gather, digging for roots and grubs to be roasted. But even here the lure of a western way of life is drawing people away. The refrain of many mothers is the same. “I want to stay in the village. The most important thing to me is that [my child] can go to school.”
The pygmies are in an impossible situation, their skills, perfected over hundreds of years, are becoming worthless in a world dominated by profit and loss accounts. They are being exploited in the same manner as the ancient rainforest trees: as an expendable commodity with a short term value. Can the pygmies find a successful identity as the modern world closes in?
Produced by Marion Meyer-Hohdahl

Kmtyw (Egyptian) medical papyri are ancient Kmtyw texts written on papyrus which permit a glimpse at medical procedures and practices in ancient Kmt (Egypt). The papyri give details on disease, diagnosis, and remedies of disease, which include herbal remedies, surgery, and magical spells.

Travelling through the Australian continent, one is often appalled by the living conditions of the Aborigine people. Having lost touch with their culture and traditions, many of them have become outcasts or alcoholics who aimlessly wander the streets of the Australian cities. From the early 1800s to the late 1960s, Aborigines were gradually deprived of their land by the white man who used it for herding, cropping, and mineral extraction. Forced to leave their homelands, Aborigines were often separated from their children, who were sent to live with white families or to boarding schools, in an attempt to teach them the white man’s values. Today 390,000 Aborigines account for less than 3% of the current Australian population. Learn how they are beginning to find their place in a society which has excluded them for so long. Meet and share the life of Aborigines who through art, dancing, hunting, work, or spirituality, are finding ways to better their future.

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In this bilingual lecture delivered at CEADA, AfroN8V provides his reflections for May 21st, deemed "dia de la afrocolombianidad" in Colombia. On this day, slavery was abolished in 1851. Annually now celebrated or commemorated in Colombia as "dia de la afrocolombianidad". The main source used for this lecture is Afrikan-"Colombian" scholar Manuel Zapata Olivella's book "Las Llaves de America". Homage is paid to Ayiti and President Petion.

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Nyuki ni Mali. This episode showcases the profits of liquid gold in Kenya. From generation to generation, a source of income and heritage. Requiring little maintenance and doing fairly well in semi-arid regions.

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1 Organic pineapple
1 can organic coconut milk

1 Large Kichen Knife
Juicer and/or blender
Pineapple corer
Can opener

1. Turn the pineapple on its side and chop off the top as shown.

2. Take the corer and remove the pineapple down to within a quarter inch of the base.
Note: Don't core too far down or you will puncture the base of the pineapple. If you do that your pina colada will spill out of the bottom when you try to refill the rind.

2. Turn it on at the pineapple setting and put the pineapple in the juicer. Turn off when finished.

3. Open the can of coconut milk.

4. Add a 4 or ounce can of coconut milk and the juice pineapple in a glass blender. Optionally you can add some of the pulp from the juicing to get the fiber and the nutrients.

If you don't have a blender you can stir the ingredients together with a spoon or put in a jar with a lid and shake vigorously.

5. Pour the Pina Colada back into the rind.

6. Drink from the rind directly or with a straw.

Pineapple is a good source of vitamin C, manganese, and B1 and B6. Don't let your pina colada sit in open-air for very long.

It might be good to pair similar nutrient supplements with your pina colada for improved absorption of those nutrients.

The best way to get the nutrients is to drink your pina colada quickly. The more contact with oxygen the more the vitamin oxidizes and breaks down. In other words, the vitamin C loses its potency and you lose the nutritional value.

Pineapple and coconut are both immune builders.

Professor James Smalls provides a sit down discussion for the Nappi by Nature Grand Opening Weekend.

Barbados. Is this the way you treat your elderly in Barbados? Damn shame! And hearing it was a woman behind the wheel!

"The altercation w the elder woman happened yesterday late morning Wilcox hill near st Philip church. I got there after it happened, saw the ambulance leaving as I pulled up. She is my friends mother. Seems is some ongoing dispute over land there and some woman intentionally drove car right into the old lady. The woman was taken by police. One of the victims sons told me her leg was mutilated and they had to remove her right leg at QEH. Haven't received any news on charges against the person driving the car." Anonymous

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They say that dementia is progressive. I say that with devotion, nutrition, exercise, ample sleep, good environment, determination and love that it can be reseved and halted. Check out the reversal and improvment. Watch till the end.

Controversial laws are being p****ed in different states in the US that appear to imply that the COVID 19 Vaccine may be mandatory. In light of the current speculation regarding the safety of the experimental vaccine with 4 alleged deaths of children who were involved in medical trials in Africa, it is questionable how safe the vaccine is. After an interview with two French Doctors during a TV interview they stated that they would test if the TB vaccine would be effective for the COVID 19 virus or CAPS . We felt very strongly that no tests should be conducted in Africa given the fact that the Continent in fact has the least fatalities. In fact it should be tested in those areas that most need it. In addition to this the population reduction statements made about Africa only raises further suspicion. Why is population control always directed towards Africa? Gambia for example has less than 2 million people who live in 4231 Square miles, whereas London is 600 Square miles and has over 9 million inhabitants. There are too many issues to address, however we are concerned that African Leaders will be bought out and implement Infectious Disease Centres in their countries thereby officiating and ensuring that experimental and possibly lethal vaccines are trialed in the countries potentially harmful viruses will be released causing a catastrophic pandemic. A thought should be given to the potential victims, not just to the money being pumped into Africa via World Banks. Which should be building lots of hospitals, not just testing centres. This all sounds nefarious and may be like a conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theorist were absolutely correct in predicting the events that are unfolding today and maybe we should pay closer attention. I have included a couple of clips one from Project Camelot that was made in 2010 and one from an old episode of X files. I just wanted to show you that everything is in plain view. It is whether you wish to see it or not. Condolences to all victims and their families that have transcended. Lets stay level headed and not be overcome by fear. I refuse to be governed by the media and I live my life as close to normal as possible without taking unnecessary risks. I see this whole episode playing itself out.

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From Dr. Obadele Kambon's Capoeira Sojourn to Brasil in 2007

South African brother gives the former colonizers 'THE BUSINESS" Wrong century for the nonsense!