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What do you believe is the best way forward for the Central African Pygmies in 2021? As we learned in this module, the plight of the Pygmies fits into so many preconceived tropes: simple people in touch with nature, the loss of innocence, the Noble Savage (a racist nineteenth-century concept), the destruction of paradise, etc. But while it is easy to imagine the egalitarian Pygmies as living in an idyllic Eden in balance with nature, there is nothing romantic about some facts of traditional Pygmy life: a fairly short life expectancy, occasional malnutrition, parasites, and a high child mortality rate. But traditional Pygmy life is disappearing, and Pygmy people increasingly interact with the non-Pygmy and non-forest world. But the social and political marginalization of the Pygmies, combined with their relative inexperience with urban life and diminutive size, makes it easy for some to cast them as innocent children or worse. They are not children who need to be supervised. In fact, it was a classic justification of colonial powers that so-called “primitive natives” needed to be “saved” from themselves, civilized, and to get on board with (or out of the way of) Progress. Today the Pygmies are exploited and even enslaved by their non-Pygmy Bantu neighbors, while war has made them victims of atrocities. Global demand for wood and minerals means that companies from four continents are heavily logging the Central African rain forests. Living outside the forest, some Pygmies have succumbed to alcoholism. The Pygmies are in a difficult position with no apparent solutions. Should the Pygmies be assisted so that they can preserve their traditions? Is such an idea doomed to failure given the world around them? Instead should the Pygmies be helped to embrace urban society and gain legal rights? Should the Pygmies be allowed to do as they please to make their own choices or be taught how to exist in the high-tech “global village?” If so, how, and by whom? Or is it the way of the world that societies must evolve and change, even if a group such as the Pygmies has perfected a way of living peacefully and in balance with its environment? I do not live how my ancestors of old did; why should the Pygmies? Are Pygmy arts crucial to their survival? Think of Colin Turnbull’s reaction when he discovered that the molimo he was shown wasn’t “traditional” as he expected. Do you, like Turnbull, find yourself wishing that the Pygmies keep things traditional? (And if so, is that for their benefit or for yours?) What, if anything, do you think should or can be done?