Mbanza

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The Mbanza (also Mbanja or Mbandja ) are an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . There they represent a relatively large ethnic group of around 500,000 people. They live mainly between the Congo and Ubangi rivers in the equatorial region . There are also scattered communities throughout the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Most of the Mbanza are farmers. They speak a banda language .

literature

James Stuart Olson: The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996 ISBN 0313279187 , page 381 [1]