Africa's Pygmy Culture

including the Democratic Republic of Congo, is highly underdeveloped in almost its entirety, having few locations as a whole that are illiterate or descent living standards. There are few metropolitan areas, let alone cities. Where the Pygmies roam tends not to be areas of vast numbers of people, but areas just like the majority of Africa, rural areas. A very minuscule percent of the Pygmies live in urban areas if any. That goes just as well for the suburban typesetting. Rural areas seem to acquire the Pygmy population; by rural, I mean the very strong type of rural; no houses, no other people, barely anything but them and their tropical forests.
             The economy has little strength, if any, of holding the Pygmy population's attention. They are not all that interested in advancing in the rank of social class, wealth or even education. They stick to what they know and do best, hunting and gathering; agriculture basically. None use modern technologies within their tribe and would be clueless just holding a cast-iron pan. As for the service industry, that has a very little percentage in their population as well, if any. What exists; is undocumented and believed to be forced upon them as slavery.
             Being the economy has little effect on them, it's pretty much common sense telling you that their government doesn't have much effect on them either. Their culture's closest resemblance to any form of government is that of a basic American Indian tribe. The leader is not given the label; passing it from generation to generation, but rather it is given to the group's finest hunter then passed from him to his best friend. The "chief" is considered the most skilled hunter of that group and is looked upon greatly. Pygmy culture too lacks laws, but they do have methods of logical discipline; when peace is broken within the group by members fighting or being disruptive, they are told to not talk with each other for some time. If the probl...

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