Kusu (ethnic group)
The Kusu are an ethnic group from the Kivu region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . They live there on the Lomami , mainly between Kimombo and Lubao . The Kusu emerged as a split from the Tetela . The Tetela came under the influence of Arab traders; part of the Tetela, the later Kusu, took up the Arab culture. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Belgian administration in the Belgian Congo relocated the Kusu to the Kivu Province and Tetela to the Kasaï Province . Today most of the Kusu speak Swahili , wear Arabic costume and have adopted Islam .
The cultural products of Kusu similar to the neighboring ethnic groups: Throne of the chief as the Baluba , the Nkisi -Ritualfiguren as the Bassonge and ancestral figures as the Hemba . The women make ceramics and baskets for everyday use.
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- ↑ James Stuart Olson: The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313279188 , p. 317 [1]
- ^ Kusu at University of Iowa