The Baka pigmies are an ethnic group with roots in the Congo basin. Considered to be the last surviving people of huntersgatherers, the Baka have seen their forests devoured by the wood industry. To survive, they must work for cacao and palm-oil growers who are often bantu, a people that has always lived in the same forests as the pigmies, developing a master-servant relationship which, together with the new mirage of economic abundance, represents one of the greatest problems of the Baka.