 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Sidelined Pygmies wish for a little suburbia; The marginal among the marginal find themselves in limbo, writes Stephanie McCrummen.(Dispatches)
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The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
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November 19, 2006
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When he dreams, the Pygmy chief Byeragi Ngenderezi dreams of having basic things: a good plastic tarp, some decent fishing nets, perhaps a few garden hoes. When he dreams big, he envisions a life altogether different from the one his ancestors have lived for thousands of years in the equatorial forests of Congo.
He imagines trading up, moving out of his leaky banana-leaf hut and into something a bit roomier.
"First of all, I would like to have my own compound,...
