Mbaka
The Mbaka (also Bwaka, Ngbaka, G'bakka) are a people in the Central African Republic and in the northwest of the Congo . You are a minority in both countries. In the Central African Republic they make up 4% of the population.
In the Central African Republic they live near the Lobaye River, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo they live near the Ubangi in the area of the city of Zongo . Many still work as fishermen . From 1890 onwards they came to terms with the French colonial power and have since occupied important administrative posts. The former President and Emperor of the Central African Empire , Jean-Bédel Bokassa , was a G'bakka, as was the first President, David Dacko , and Prime Minister Barthélemy Boganda . The G'bakka speak the Ngbaka Ma'bo language , there are around 300,000 G'bakka in total. Another well-known g'bakka is the Congolese singer Koffi Olomide .
Her musical instruments include large slit drums , the ends of which are decorated with buffalo or antelope heads, the kondi angle harp and a U-shaped, single-stringed musical bow .
Web links
- Ngbaka. University of Iowa, Museum of Art
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Stalker: A Guide to Countries of the World , Verlag OUP Oxford, 2010 ISBN 9780199580729 , p. 58 [1]
- ↑ James Stuart Olsen: The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary , Verlag Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0313279187 , page 380 ( online )
- ^ Kwame Anthony Appiah , Henry Louis Gates (Eds.): Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books, New York NY 1999, ISBN 0-465-00071-1 , p. 1278.
- ^ Tribal African Art. Ngbaka. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic. African Art Museum