The life of Ba’Aka children and their rights: between the processes of poverty and deprivation

This chapter presents the socio-cultural situation of children from the Ba’Aka indigenous community, a hunter-gatherer group inhabiting the Sangha-Mbaéré region of the rainforest in the Central African Republic. Drawing on primary research, I discuss the issue of education, which, as a right enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, should be provided to all children in the world (Art. 28, 29, 30 CRC). The educational situation of Ba’Aka children places them at the crossroads of traditional indigenous and modern life in the Central African Republic. I will outline the difficult situation of children who are ‘unheard’ in the minority and majority worlds, and ‘invisible’ in the crush of global problems.