Konda (ethnic group in Africa)

The Konda live north of Lake Mai Ndombe , in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . They are part of the Mongo ethnic group. The Konda split into two sets , the Twa and the Oto. A census in 1957 found around 80,000 Konda, of which around 2/3 Oto and 1/3 Twa . In their settlements, the ruling Oto and Twa live separately. Since inter-cast marriage is prohibited, there is little intermingling. The low gene flow is also unidirectional, because in cases where there are offspring from an inter-caste relationship, the father is Oto and the mother Twa. The offspring is then considered to be Twa. The Twa are mainly hunters and gatherers while the Oto do agriculture and fishing . The Oto also make pottery and iron goods. The symbiosis of the two castes is mainly based on the exchange of food .

Individual evidence

↑ James Stuart Olson : The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313279188 , p. 295 [1]
↑ Jean Hiernaux: Long-term biological effects of human migration from the African savanna to the equatorial forest in Population Structure and Human Variation Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1977, ISBN 9780521213998 , page 194 [2]

[1] James Stuart Olson : The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313279188 , p. 295 [1]

[2] Jean Hiernaux: Long-term biological effects of human migration from the African savanna to the equatorial forest in Population Structure and Human Variation Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1977, ISBN 9780521213998 , page 194 [2]