Kuimba: Music
The Pygmies' Song Of The Hunt (from the CD "Mawingu-I Remember Africa")
(Kuimba)
Lyrics and Music by the Wambuti (Pygmies) who live near Itendey village in northern Congo, Africa.
An anthropologist whom we visited in Kenya recently told us that many anthropologists now surmise that the human race sprang from a single forbear — a black Pygmy woman who lived in Africa. We would be greatly complimented were this to be true because we hold a great deal of respect for these good-natured little people who have survived in the rainforest for thousands of years without upsetting its natural balance. We’ve inserted a portion here of a song some of them sang for us one morning in the Ituri (ee too´ ree) Forest near my parent’s home. The words of the song are in Kilesi (kee leh´ see), a language which, unfortunately, we do not speak.