Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

Long celebrated by some NGOs and Indigenous rights activists as the guardians of the forest, the Batwa of South Kivu had lived inside what is now Kahuzi-Biega National Park (KBNP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) until the 20th century, when they were expelled by the Congolese government, at that time MPR (Popular Movement … Continue reading Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa