Goula (ethnic group)

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Goula (also: Gula ) are an ethnic group in the northeast of the Central African Republic .

history

The name means "people of the water". a distinction is made between the "gens de l'eau" (Molo; Goula Mamoun, Mele, Moto Mar, Sara, Mere) and the "gens de la montagne" (people of the mountains - Zura, Koto, Wowo, Mutu). The tribe immigrated to the area of Vakaga , around Lake Mamoun in what is now Central Africa , at the end of the 18th century . They were Islamized in the 1960s.

The people today number around 17,000 people who live in an area of ​​50,000 km². Its main town is Birao in the Central African Republic .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Etude anthropologique de l'organization sociale et politique des communautés en Centrafrique et des organizations à assise communautaire. UNICEF MENDIGUREN 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Corinne Bensimon: Le gula. Sur tous les tons. In: Liberation. liberation.fr August 20, 2002

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