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Belgian colonial government) practices. In several chapters of the book are described some of his first encounters with the Efe pygmies of the Ituri
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This 18-track CD includes 7 tracks compiled from Hallet's collection of musical recordings of the Efe
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is an auto-biographical book about Hallet's travels through central Africa from 1948 through 1960. In it he documents interactions with multiple isolated cultures throughout the
Belgian Congo, Rwanda and
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of animals (such as that of smartest cat—- the leopard) and man in Kenya and Uganda and some serendipitous nature photographs were published in magazines in
Central Africa.
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