I am envious of Uganda now. Uganda is so beautiful. I used to be very much afraid for Ugandans after reading all the stories about the elections and how they said people were killed by government.
Africa is a joyful continent and the only continent where you find happy people who don't buy or pay for happiness. Keep it mama Africa. Kudos Wode Maya
Am surprised that ,batwa tribal Pipo are also found in Uganda just like Zambia Luapula province🇿🇲🇿🇲.May be they found themselves in Zambia by immigration via Congo.
Ugandan series have really opened up my view towards Uganda...I have always researched about it since 2020....but you have shown us the part we don't see on TV,.. thanks Wode Maya.....am gonna visit Uganda 🇺🇬 this May .... courtesy of you Maya........I wanna make Uganda my home 🔥🔥🔥🇺🇬😍
It's amazing how they didn't think owning anything was important until now. Poverty wasn't a thing when everything they needed was in the forest. Life is simple, we are the ones that complicate things.
@@betalife4women If this is the true reason, it's absolute insanity. I suspect there's a more nefarious reason behind this displacement though & that this "conservation of the forest & animals" is just what their government is using as an excuse so they can move forward with other plans in the future & not be seen as displacing the people for other reasons that will surely line their pockets.
So true their way of life doesn’t include greed or selfishness they shared everything themfound in the forest which was all they needed to live, then the Foresters pay goverments money to move the indigenous Pig,y people out and give them nothing but a hut and a toilet no jobs just poverty, if they go into their own forest without permission from the bosses they get killed or locked up. Wh😮 are people in power so greedy and evil I detest them so much it hurts to see what they have done to the indigenous peoples of Africa America Asia Australasia all in the name of greed but they say God. I hope they will suffer before and after they die, never to return to earth again. Unless perhaps they do come back as cockroaches or deadly mosquitos who. Knows the cycle of life began in Africa it will never end there. Their god is evil if he allows them to do all these evil acts on innocent peoples of this globe
Thank you for sharing their story. It's alway crazy to be that governments can be so backwards. If you need to protect the forest why not employ the people within the forest to be the protectors. They know the area better than anyone else. If you kick them out of the forest then you have to hire people with no knowledge of the forest. These people should be the guardians of the forest, They know the forest, they sleep in the forest, they eat from the forest, they support the forest and the forest supports them. They are the forest.
I love your sentiment but I don’t think protection of the forest is the real goal of the government. If you re watch listen to the tour guide right at the beginning he says the want to sell animals. Those people used to own it and they forced them off to benefit them selves. It hurts my hart the way the west poisons everything.
Their short statured is due to children having babies at relatively a young age. There’s also a Pygmy population in Asia as well. It has nothing to do with diversity.
The word Pygmy is only a collection of 5 letters Why the offence? Eskimos ... A collection of 7 letters. Is " Inuits" a better word. Only 6 letters though Is Pole for Polish an offence?... Nah
From your Nigerian brother: Wode Maya, you are the greatest African Anthropologist ever lived. Every iota of your video clip on Africa is eternally priceless. I wish I have the finances to set up a "Wode Maya Africa Institute/Anthropological Society" . A great SON of Fante, Ghana & Africa.
It is very sad that the government drove them out of the forest but did not give them land to live in amd develop. That is Ugandan Heritage that should be preserved. I wish they could do something about this.
Very sad. Why did they choose to preserve the gorillas but not the people? Perhaps because people will pay to see gorillas but not pygmies. They should re-consider and give them a portion of their home, the forest.
They were not chased but were encroaching on the forest and destroying the land so people have different mindset and were given options to go to school and other health facilities but some people are not open
You inspire me, Wode Maya. I hope that someday, my RUclips channels grows and becomes this big. I also hope to tell African stories someday. Thanks for being a huge inspiration.
Protect them at all cost. The pygmies have a history that extends back over 60,000 years and were some of the first people to populate the entire world. 🖤👑💯
Yea but they never evolved for some reason. The Romans of only 2 centuries ago were small people. The Dutch of a century ago were a lot smaller than the native Dutch of today, and good food is put forward as the reason😅
@@themadfarmer5207 🤣Africa invented Writing Systems, Mathematics, Science, Architecture, Astrology, Religion, Civilization, Medicine, Art ect. Thousands of years before the continent of europe. Africa also civilized europe and every other part of the world.
@@Nimz4545 Many people forget just how ancient black africans are. They have been around for more than 200,000 years while every other race has evolved within the last 6,000 years.
These people are very strong spiritually and physically, and I wonder how they resit to the cruelty of the bloody wave of the mosquitoes and other wild animals of the forest, truly God is great for His deeds
I grew up in the village living with my grandparents. I remember getting sick only once while growing up in the village. We fetched our water directly from the river in the village for our everyday use, that is for drinking and everything else. I personally think that growing up in the village has made me a much more stronger and healthier man now. The food was natural and healthy, and my village years are the best part of my life. I was around 13 or 14 years before I was sent to my father in the big city. Imagine my amazement first time with electricity, tv and ceiling fan. Me thinking to myself; what at all is making this iron to rotate and blow cold air over my body!
Thanks so much Brother W Maya we really enjoyed being please come again when you have more time and stay with them more time and please fund raise for those pigmies the batwa of Uganda.
Your story being told to us are ours... your picture our pictures are ours... thank you Wode Maya for showing us to us ...love,prosperity and blessings
WODEMAY Thanks For showing this world to me. Can you imagine we speak the same language. Though we differ in life styles. Am from western Uganda thanks WODEMAYA.
The Batwa I learnt about in history more than 35 years ago, WoW!!! And their lifestyle is exactly what we learnt about. Their language though is so close to isiXhosa (Spoken in the Cape (east and west) in South Africa)
Definitely 💯 reaching 1.5 million subscribers soon and the rest will be history. Home of African rich content, where the narrative is truly about the African
Wode, I’ve been to Uganda once for my grand mom’s funeral. Never met her but my dad always said such things about her. She was from Kabale. And I am happy for this. Gold on RUclips. Thank you. American trying to go home. Thanks for all the diaspora vids
This video is very informative. Wode Maya, if you ever go back to Burundi, please visit one of our Batwa community to compare. In Burundi Batwa are supposed to represent 1% of the population and their small communities are scattered all over the country. When I was growing up in the early 1950s we had a small Twa community next to my grandpa land. The chief had given them a small piece of land just enough to put their huts. Nowadays efforts are made to integrate Batwa in the whole socio-economic system of the country (through education and access to land)..
You never disappoint. Thanks Wode Maya, for another educational and eye openings video on Uganda.only Almighty God will reward you handsomely for the positive exposure you're given to Uganda and Africa in general. I wish you have committed followers like me that shears your video with some people I talked to on the train and at Walmart store, that I ensured to subscribe to your channel because you deserve more subscribers than what you have presently for the amazing work you are doing to change African image positively to the World. Mama Africa is with you and your wife.God Almighty will continue to guide and protect you always Amen!!!
In addition to the countries you mentioned as having the pigmy people, is Cameroon. The Baka pigmyies occupy an area which straddles a part of Gabon and that of Cameroon. Thank you Wode, for increasingly becoming inclusive in your contents.
Wode Maya writing the untold stories.Kudos to you Wode Maya. The African tourism ambassador. I wish you are Ghana's minister of tourism and creative content .
They look strong and healthy too,am just imaging how they feel leaving the forest which has been their home for years to another place😢thanks for sharing maya,is the dancing for me 😅❤
Abatwa I think they were ancestors of all the the now civilised Africans because even in Southern Africa you can find them here in South Africa they are now called Khoisan others called them Bushman but in isiZulu we knew them as abathwa they we living in caves and under hanging rocks and they are still exist in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana
This is true. Because kiga people migrated north after Shaka Zulu died. And the short people they met in Kabale they called twa. Bantu people understand the Ba”twa” people of the twa -short. My grand dad was Ugandan. I am second generation American and this comment makes every thing dad and papa have said connect
@@afckajjansi Batwa are not Bantus. They adopted bantu languages and were absorbed by Bantus. That is how I understand the history that was taught to us in primary school. In primary school, we were taught that they were the earliest settlers in Malawi, the bantu peoples, the chewas, found the batwas in Malawi when they migrated from what is today, the DRC. However, the batwas and the Khoisan of South Africa are not the same peoples, they are different group and it shows with their click languages.
The Batwa in Uganda are Bantu. In fact, their language is very close to the Rukiga language. I am a Muganda [Baganda who are Bantu] and I understand to a good extent what they are speaking.
Wode, you are really an explorer. What I find fascinating is how these people live in harmony with the forest for centuries; and we (the modern ones) who pollute everything we touch, are imposing evacuation orders on these people over forest management. Do we see an irony?
You are the cord that binds Africa together. May you and your wife be in good health as you strive to work hard to uplift us. Behind every successful man is a strong woman, so her well-being is key to your continued success. When she is happy you will automatically be happy and a happy man is unstoppable.
In Zulu and Xhosa we call them Abathwa. Sticking true to their original name. What i know about them is they have excellent knowledge of traditional medicine and plants. Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦
Happy for you Wada Maya, thanks so much for covering Uganda 🇺🇬 and showing this pearl of Africa to the world may Allah continue to bless you and accord you good health, we look up to u on many fronts but you have not only presented Africa to the world but you have also inspired many especially us in the tourism industry. Keep going and please make Uganda 🇺🇬 your third home we can host you any time you want. I saw you didn't visit the North and Eastern part, also could be good coverage there.
Who are we to label these people as poor? They have co-existed with nature and are good stewards to the forest and wildlife for 100's of years. They were sacked/kicked out of their home and forced to assimilate. Why? Walking barefoot is medicinal living in nature is life giving. And their life experiences are far richer. Now it has become fashionable to "Homestead" live "Off Grid". But do we call them "POOR"? So who is really poor? The person who works a 8-10 hour day to pay mortgage, car note, utilities, processed food and the list goes on. Let's really put things in perspective they are debt free stress free healthy and eat organically and own a whole Forest. MR. GHANA BABY thank you for bringing this historical information to us! You indeed are changing the narrative and the mindset.
This is interesting. I remember learning about “abatwa/akafula” as being the earliest settlers of my country Malawi. History records that they were also very short people.
The pygmies seem happy with their music and dancing and the simple way of life while the UN estimates that there are millions of Africans on the move towards Europe... 50 million??? Makes no sense. Keep up the music and dancing
My people try☺. They pray it rains(🍞blessing), for better living🍀. One day, one day their son(s) and daughter(s) will return with that rain galore🍞🍞🍞 and we will rejoice in Life😊. Thank you Mr. Ghana baby for this Coverage, Such a timeless feeling it brings, Thank you🙏. And to all the amazing people in the comment section, I simply want to say Mwebale👐(Thanks) for your kind reviews on this🙏. One 🌍😊
But these guys speak Rukiga. They have been asimilated into the the tribes around,the Bakiga and The Bafumbira(Ugandan Rwandese).Thanks Wode for this history
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen since ages. So pure and original I hope they can keep and preserve this amazing lifestyle unaffected from civilization for a long time to come! Thank you for showing us the faces of Africa the mainstream media never pays attention to. Just waw ❤️
This is why there is World Indigenous day in August,it is to raise awareness and educate about the plight of indigenous peoples of mother earth.Some Governments are starting to improve their policies towards indigenous peoples and have given them land rights,like the Baka Pygmies of Congo Republic now have better rights from 2018 onwards,in my Country Zimbabwe the remaining Khoisan people are no longer classified as stateless people,they are now classified as indigenous peoples,their health is improving.In 2016 their numbers had plummeted to only 2 thousand people and were going extinct,but new policies were introduced in 2018 to tackle their plight and their numbers have gone up to about 3 thousand . The New State of the Art Parliament House in Mt Hampden was decorated with Khoisan rock art on the main ceiling,this was a tribute to the tribe as First people of present day Zimbabwe. All this makes me proud to be an AFRICAN coz we are doing what we can to preserve our Aboriginal peoples and celebrate our diversity as Africans. Lets hope Uganda does more to preserve the Batwa people.
WodeMaya sweating all the banku in the forest.😮This is such a beautiful feature. Africa is everything you feature. The urban apartments🌇 and the forest caves🌄. We need to embrace both.🖤✊🏾 LOVE &LIGHT🖤💡
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When an Africa story is told by an African, it makes me smile.❤
Yes exactly 💯
They also tell real true more than....
Agreed
It has a positive story .👍🏾
Wooow❤❤❤
What Wode Maya is doing for Africa is unprecedented. Bravo Maya.
Yes, he is😂😂😂. He is a fantastic guy.
ruclips.net/video/SaNF2BDv1ug/видео.html great one and let Love Lead 💕🇺🇬
Protect these people at all cost. Much LOVE 🖤 from AMERICA!!! 🇺🇸
I see this is where the new world found their ways of survival from
ruclips.net/video/SaNF2BDv1ug/видео.html pygmies
Are you rwandeees because they reside in Rwanda as well & are treated the same way, they are treated horribly throughout Africa
I definitely agree 😢
Am from Uganda 🇺🇬 thanks for promoting Uganda to the world ❤
I am envious of Uganda now. Uganda is so beautiful. I used to be very much afraid for Ugandans after reading all the stories about the elections and how they said people were killed by government.
Maya has really showcase and promote every aspect of Uganda to the world, Good work done Africa king.
Africa is a joyful continent and the only continent where you find happy people who don't buy or pay for happiness. Keep it mama Africa. Kudos Wode Maya
Louder
Am surprised that ,batwa tribal Pipo are also found in Uganda just like Zambia Luapula province🇿🇲🇿🇲.May be they found themselves in Zambia by immigration via Congo.
Ugandan series have really opened up my view towards Uganda...I have always researched about it since 2020....but you have shown us the part we don't see on TV,.. thanks Wode Maya.....am gonna visit Uganda 🇺🇬 this May .... courtesy of you Maya........I wanna make Uganda my home 🔥🔥🔥🇺🇬😍
True that hey.
I agree 100%.
Welcome to my beautiful Country.
Come home 😇😇
Welcome home bro
It's amazing how they didn't think owning anything was important until now. Poverty wasn't a thing when everything they needed was in the forest. Life is simple, we are the ones that complicate things.
They are rich in their own way and that’s life
Yes yes yes finally someone says it like me 🙏
Well said. It's amazing that human beings are displaced for animals with whom they co-existed for so long.
@@betalife4women If this is the true reason, it's absolute insanity. I suspect there's a more nefarious reason behind this displacement though & that this "conservation of the forest & animals" is just what their government is using as an excuse so they can move forward with other plans in the future & not be seen as displacing the people for other reasons that will surely line their pockets.
So true their way of life doesn’t include greed or selfishness they shared everything themfound in the forest which was all they needed to live, then the Foresters pay goverments money to move the indigenous Pig,y people out and give them nothing but a hut and a toilet no jobs just poverty, if they go into their own forest without permission from the bosses they get killed or locked up. Wh😮 are people in power so greedy and evil I detest them so much it hurts to see what they have done to the indigenous peoples of Africa America Asia Australasia all in the name of greed but they say God. I hope they will suffer before and after they die, never to return to earth again. Unless perhaps they do come back as cockroaches or deadly mosquitos who. Knows the cycle of life began in Africa it will never end there. Their god is evil if he allows them to do all these evil acts on innocent peoples of this globe
Thank you for sharing their story. It's alway crazy to be that governments can be so backwards. If you need to protect the forest why not employ the people within the forest to be the protectors. They know the area better than anyone else. If you kick them out of the forest then you have to hire people with no knowledge of the forest. These people should be the guardians of the forest, They know the forest, they sleep in the forest, they eat from the forest, they support the forest and the forest supports them. They are the forest.
I love your sentiment but I don’t think protection of the forest is the real goal of the government. If you re watch listen to the tour guide right at the beginning he says the want to sell animals. Those people used to own it and they forced them off to benefit them selves. It hurts my hart the way the west poisons everything.
They are the Master's of the forest and the chosen vessel's of TMH🌅🌌.
@@petermorton301 LOL
It would be like the New Bedford fleet rocking up to an Alaskan village and saying, "Clear out! We gotta save the whales!"
videos like these makes me realize how diverse Africa is, we sit in one corner of Africa not knowing what's happening in the other corner
Agree!
Agree. It is even the diversity that makes Africa unique. Every country in Africa has this diversity across the sq meters.
Their short statured is due to children having babies at relatively a young age. There’s also a Pygmy population in Asia as well. It has nothing to do with diversity.
@@ashasweetyu what ..so all tall people is because their parents waited to have them?
@@ashasweetyulol! What reasoning is that?
This tribe looks physically stronger, probably healthy. Great content as expected Maya and team. Thank you. Blessings
Yes they are very strong bz they live on hills climbing everyday for their activities
@@angelmalayika5002 the organic food and water from free flowing streams. That’s life.
Thanks Maya for lifting our Ugandan flag.
Pygmies is an insulting term created and used by Europeans. The correct term is Twa People. Sacred people of Africa!!!
They are SCARED people? 😅
@@ug_star
He meant sacred...
Scared of Africa?
They must note a correct Is term
The word Pygmy is only a collection of 5 letters
Why the offence?
Eskimos ... A collection of 7 letters.
Is " Inuits" a better word. Only 6 letters though
Is Pole for Polish an offence?... Nah
God bless this tribe you, and all Global Africans my brother.
🇺🇬 Uganda, your sister Kenya loves and appreciates you
Maya, you've really done a great work on Uganda. The motherland is proud
From your Nigerian brother: Wode Maya, you are the greatest African Anthropologist ever lived. Every iota of your video clip on Africa is eternally priceless. I wish I have the finances to set up a "Wode Maya Africa Institute/Anthropological Society" . A great SON of Fante, Ghana & Africa.
It is very sad that the government drove them out of the forest but did not give them land to live in amd develop. That is Ugandan Heritage that should be preserved. I wish they could do something about this.
So sad on the other hand
Very sad. Why did they choose to preserve the gorillas but not the people? Perhaps because people will pay to see gorillas but not pygmies. They should re-consider and give them a portion of their home, the forest.
@@lily.9802: Yep, the gorillas bring in tourists $$$...
They were not chased but were encroaching on the forest and destroying the land so people have different mindset and were given options to go to school and other health facilities but some people are not open
@@lily.9802 You know M7 is not a very nice guy. His motor money nothing else
Fascinating content, it’s a real shame these people were removed from the forest 😢, thank you for showcasing their story!
You inspire me, Wode Maya. I hope that someday, my RUclips channels grows and becomes this big. I also hope to tell African stories someday.
Thanks for being a huge inspiration.
Proud to be an African ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Protect them at all cost. The pygmies have a history that extends back over 60,000 years and were some of the first people to populate the entire world. 🖤👑💯
6,000 years. 60,000 years is European fantasy, same as millions of years blah blah blah!
@@Nimz4545 🤡
Yea but they never evolved for some reason.
The Romans of only 2 centuries ago were small people.
The Dutch of a century ago were a lot smaller than the native Dutch of today, and good food is put forward as the reason😅
@@themadfarmer5207 🤣Africa invented Writing Systems, Mathematics, Science, Architecture, Astrology, Religion, Civilization, Medicine, Art ect. Thousands of years before the continent of europe. Africa also civilized europe and every other part of the world.
@@Nimz4545 Many people forget just how ancient black africans are. They have been around for more than 200,000 years while every other race has evolved within the last 6,000 years.
These people are very strong spiritually and physically, and I wonder how they resit to the cruelty of the bloody wave of the mosquitoes and other wild animals of the forest, truly God is great for His deeds
BLESSINGS TO YOU MAYA AND YOUR TEAM FOR SHOW CASING THE PEARL OF AFRICA/UGANDA..💗
They are so interesting! The fact that they were willing to act out their lives for you. Lovely people.
I grew up in the village living with my grandparents. I remember getting sick only once while growing up in the village. We fetched our water directly from the river in the village for our everyday use, that is for drinking and everything else. I personally think that growing up in the village has made me a much more stronger and healthier man now. The food was natural and healthy, and my village years are the best part of my life. I was around 13 or 14 years before I was sent to my father in the big city. Imagine my amazement first time with electricity, tv and ceiling fan. Me thinking to myself; what at all is making this iron to rotate and blow cold air over my body!
I love it when Maya said, they are also short like me. Maya do you know you are very good in narrating
Thanks so much Brother W Maya we really enjoyed being please come again when you have more time and stay with them more time and please fund raise for those pigmies the batwa of Uganda.
Your story being told to us are ours... your picture our pictures are ours... thank you Wode Maya for showing us to us ...love,prosperity and blessings
WODEMAY Thanks For showing this world to me. Can you imagine we speak the same language. Though we differ in life styles. Am from western Uganda thanks WODEMAYA.
Wow
The Batwa I learnt about in history more than 35 years ago, WoW!!! And their lifestyle is exactly what we learnt about. Their language though is so close to isiXhosa (Spoken in the Cape (east and west) in South Africa)
Naledi, this language doesn't sound like isixhosa.
These ones were speaking Rukiga, the language spoken by most of the people in Kigezi discrict ... where the Batwa are living now...
@@josephshonga178 they're both bantu languages, so yes they can be very similar
And their dancing style is similar too
Definitely 💯 reaching 1.5 million subscribers soon and the rest will be history. Home of African rich content, where the narrative is truly about the African
Wode, I’ve been to Uganda once for my grand mom’s funeral. Never met her but my dad always said such things about her. She was from Kabale. And I am happy for this. Gold on RUclips. Thank you. American trying to go home. Thanks for all the diaspora vids
You have really promoted UGANDA 🇺🇬!🙌🏾🙌🏾 THANK YOU!!!
He has in fact over promoted Uganda. I foresee a surge in tourists going to Uganda
Am collecting likes for Maya, bring them pls❣️
Hi 👋🏾 Thanks for sharing ❤ prayers that all turn around for the better Universe, Ancestors help them please.
This video is very informative. Wode Maya, if you ever go back to Burundi, please visit one of our Batwa community to compare. In Burundi Batwa are supposed to represent 1% of the population and their small communities are scattered all over the country. When I was growing up in the early 1950s we had a small Twa community next to my grandpa land. The chief had given them a small piece of land just enough to put their huts.
Nowadays efforts are made to integrate Batwa in the whole socio-economic system of the country (through education and access to land)..
Iam African iam proud to learn about my African culture practice and tradition's thanks brother for brave adventure
You never disappoint. Thanks Wode Maya, for another educational and eye openings video on Uganda.only Almighty God will reward you handsomely for the positive exposure you're given to Uganda and Africa in general. I wish you have committed followers like me that shears your video with some people I talked to on the train and at Walmart store, that I ensured to subscribe to your channel because you deserve more subscribers than what you have presently for the amazing work you are doing to change African image positively to the World. Mama Africa is with you and your wife.God Almighty will continue to guide and protect you always Amen!!!
God bless WODE MAYA ❤️🙏
In addition to the countries you mentioned as having the pigmy people, is Cameroon. The Baka pigmyies occupy an area which straddles a part of Gabon and that of Cameroon. Thank you Wode, for increasingly becoming inclusive in your contents.
Wode Maya,you have made us know more about our own country Uganda.Great effort surely!
Wode Maya writing the untold stories.Kudos to you Wode Maya.
The African tourism ambassador.
I wish you are Ghana's minister of tourism and creative content .
Thanks maya ..... am a Ugandan but even people with cameras never go this far ... big up bro for promoting Africa
They look strong and healthy too,am just imaging how they feel leaving the forest which has been their home for years to another place😢thanks for sharing maya,is the dancing for me 😅❤
我的妈呀！thank you for what you're doing to promote Africa ❤
Abatwa I think they were ancestors of all the the now civilised Africans because even in Southern Africa you can find them here in South Africa they are now called Khoisan others called them Bushman but in isiZulu we knew them as abathwa they we living in caves and under hanging rocks and they are still exist in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana
Yes they are our ancestors even if others deny
But the khoisan are not bantu yet the Batwa are bantu
This is true. Because kiga people migrated north after Shaka Zulu died. And the short people they met in Kabale they called twa. Bantu people understand the Ba”twa” people of the twa -short. My grand dad was Ugandan. I am second generation American and this comment makes every thing dad and papa have said connect
@@afckajjansi Batwa are not Bantus. They adopted bantu languages and were absorbed by Bantus. That is how I understand the history that was taught to us in primary school. In primary school, we were taught that they were the earliest settlers in Malawi, the bantu peoples, the chewas, found the batwas in Malawi when they migrated from what is today, the DRC. However, the batwas and the Khoisan of South Africa are not the same peoples, they are different group and it shows with their click languages.
The Batwa in Uganda are Bantu. In fact, their language is very close to the Rukiga language.
I am a Muganda [Baganda who are Bantu] and I understand to a good extent what they are speaking.
Wodemaya greetings from Kenya we love you 👍🙏
My Trueee and Deepestttt prayers for the Pygmée tribesmen of Uganda and the rest of Africa!
Much love from the USA
That's adventure, active participation in cultural dance.I am amazed how quick ly you are adapting the dance!
Very educative, thanks Woda Maya. You are a true African. We are proud of you with love from Zambia
You are blessed WODE MAYA 🙏🏽🙏🏽😇❤
I am MAYA - your favorite village 👦 boy- you're helping showcase our Continent 🌍 AFRICA ❤TO THE WORLD 🗺 🌍
Wode maya thank you for choosing Uganda and for comming by..please come back again another time.
Wode, you are really an explorer.
What I find fascinating is how these people live in harmony with the forest for centuries; and we (the modern ones) who pollute everything we touch, are imposing evacuation orders on these people over forest management.
Do we see an irony?
You would think something could be done like them working together with the government to help preserve the forest.
yes
Maya does the coverage with a passion, opening Uganda to world.
Am in Uganda and from the west but this is my first tym enjoying the scene of batwa people , big up wado maya
You are the cord that binds Africa together. May you and your wife be in good health as you strive to work hard to uplift us. Behind every successful man is a strong woman, so her well-being is key to your continued success. When she is happy you will automatically be happy and a happy man is unstoppable.
I hope people don't let the pygmies die out including their knowledge of herbal remedies from the forest.
Interesting narration of the batwa.
Wow I didn't know their culture despite being a ugandan. Thanks for this episode
In Zulu and Xhosa we call them Abathwa. Sticking true to their original name.
What i know about them is they have excellent knowledge of traditional medicine and plants.
Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦
I love my people !! All over the world!!
So beautiful!! 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾 🌍🌍 it is beautiful to see their resilience and joyful spirit. Our people are magnificent all over the world!
Happy for you Wada Maya, thanks so much for covering Uganda 🇺🇬 and showing this pearl of Africa to the world may Allah continue to bless you and accord you good health, we look up to u on many fronts but you have not only presented Africa to the world but you have also inspired many especially us in the tourism industry. Keep going and please make Uganda 🇺🇬 your third home we can host you any time you want. I saw you didn't visit the North and Eastern part, also could be good coverage there.
Uganda, the best
Interesting video Wode Maya, greetings and love from the Netherlands always.
This ma pipo do not know anything about stress and anxiety. A true happy living❤
Who are we to label these people as poor? They have co-existed with nature and are good stewards to the forest and wildlife for 100's of years. They were sacked/kicked out of their home and forced to assimilate. Why? Walking barefoot is medicinal living in nature is life giving. And their life experiences are far richer. Now it has become fashionable to "Homestead" live "Off Grid". But do we call them "POOR"? So who is really poor? The person who works a 8-10 hour day to pay mortgage, car note, utilities, processed food and the list goes on. Let's really put things in perspective they are debt free stress free healthy and eat organically and own a whole Forest. MR. GHANA BABY thank you for bringing this historical information to us! You indeed are changing the narrative and the mindset.
This is interesting. I remember learning about “abatwa/akafula” as being the earliest settlers of my country Malawi. History records that they were also very short people.
They were also native to ancient Egypt( Kemet).
The way Wode Maya laughs cracks me up every time. Full of so much joy! Well done.
Am a mukiga and i have seen their dance trying to resemble ours and some words sound rukiga 😮😮
Wow this is just too amazing that they live their life without having to struggle for luxuries like us; they're just happy with themselves❤😊
Thanks
And then M7 happened and now they are homeless
@@lemondrizzle5658museveni omwihe omukanwa kawe mbwawe
The pygmies seem happy with their music and dancing and the simple way of life while the UN estimates that there are millions of Africans on the move towards Europe... 50 million???
Makes no sense. Keep up the music and dancing
MAYA please don't kill miss Trudy with that plant LMAO 🤣😂😂😂😂😂
Maya is alway the best thank you for opening the eyes of Africa and the world
My people try☺. They pray it rains(🍞blessing), for better living🍀. One day, one day their son(s) and daughter(s) will return with that rain galore🍞🍞🍞 and we will rejoice in Life😊. Thank you Mr. Ghana baby for this Coverage, Such a timeless feeling it brings, Thank you🙏. And to all the amazing people in the comment section, I simply want to say Mwebale👐(Thanks) for your kind reviews on this🙏. One 🌍😊
extinction must not be our fate my short brother
Very educative documentary thank you Maya . Watching from Kenya.
Love from Jamaica 🇯🇲👍👍👍👍
Wow this is wonderful, Maya God bless you. I really learnt a lot❤
Oh my heart sings with joy thanks a lot Wode Maya, their used to be some of them in the mountains in Liberia years ago. Oh Mama Africa.
Maya the best RUclipsr in Africa
This is a great documentary and rich history we need to know. Thanks maya
We always enjoyed watching your videos very educative, Stay blessed Maya your the giant of Africa
Oh WOW I remember in Zambia we learnt about Batwa People in my History Class. They hail in Northern Zambia.
But these guys speak Rukiga. They have been asimilated into the the tribes around,the Bakiga and The Bafumbira(Ugandan Rwandese).Thanks Wode for this history
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen since ages. So pure and original I hope they can keep and preserve this amazing lifestyle unaffected from civilization for a long time to come! Thank you for showing us the faces of Africa the mainstream media never pays attention to. Just waw ❤️
We also have pygmies in cameroon. They are called BAKA.
What' riches video 😍💫⭐️⭐️ our Motherland is ending bless by God . Thank you, Wode Maya 🙏🏽
This is why there is World Indigenous day in August,it is to raise awareness and educate about the plight of indigenous peoples of mother earth.Some Governments are starting to improve their policies towards indigenous peoples and have given them land rights,like the Baka Pygmies of Congo Republic now have better rights from 2018 onwards,in my Country Zimbabwe the remaining Khoisan people are no longer classified as stateless people,they are now classified as indigenous peoples,their health is improving.In 2016 their numbers had plummeted to only 2 thousand people and were going extinct,but new policies were introduced in 2018 to tackle their plight and their numbers have gone up to about 3 thousand .
The New State of the Art Parliament House in Mt Hampden was decorated with Khoisan rock art on the main ceiling,this was a tribute to the tribe as First people of present day Zimbabwe.
All this makes me proud to be an AFRICAN coz we are doing what we can to preserve our Aboriginal peoples and celebrate our diversity as Africans.
Lets hope Uganda does more to preserve the Batwa people.
Great job Wode. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾👏💯
Interested story
Great job of showing what Africa is. That aphrodisiac tree🌳 ,will attract many male researchers.
Thanks For sharing Bro, wish you wellness.
I'm Ugandan,Kenyan,and Tanzanian
@wodemaya Even in Kenya somewhere called KIPKURERE
some pigmies are there too
First to watch.... Greetings from The Gambia
The Ugandan government needs to compensate these people who are a part of the backbone of Africa's civilization.
Am a muganda and a Ugandan but never knew there is these brothers and sisters of ours in my country. Wish one day I meet them and greet
Uganda documentaries has really opened my eye wow...wodemaya to God be the glory
Woda we must preserve the Rights of the batwa tribe and their right to remain living in their forest
I wanted to see their new home!
WodeMaya sweating all the banku in the forest.😮This is such a beautiful feature. Africa is everything you feature. The urban apartments🌇 and the forest caves🌄. We need to embrace both.🖤✊🏾
LOVE &LIGHT🖤💡