From August 8 until September 2, 2023, Prof. Jean-Pierre Donzo (ISP-Gombe, Kinshasa & BantUGent) carried out a BantuFirst fieldwork mission amongst several Batwa or Pygmy communities in DRC’s Kasai Province, more specifically around the towns of Mweka and Dekese. He has inventorized and mapped the different Batwa languages in that part of the DRC as well as the Bantu languages of the communities with which they interact. He has collected audo recordings of basic lexical and grammatical data in those Bantu languages.
