Many experts believe they are descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans.

Pygmies are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of Central Africa, and around 600,000 live in Congo. A Catholic cleric in the province, Monsignor Melchisedec Sikuli Paluku, told The ...

The “Congo Pygmies” were subjected to public viewing, and when the public was not around, were studied and measured by scientists – racial anthropologists – who declared the “specimens ...