Possible Clues:

• They are small folk with a beastly-sounding start
• Tiny tribesmen
• Ethnic group in Equatorial Africa
• Nomadic hunter-gatherers of short stature
• Africans of small stature
• Wee folk for sure, but may not be good folk (7)
• Groups of small people who live in central Africa
• Very small people as in some African tribes
• There's little, and not many, of them
• The little folk that get crusty about the gym