Mbukushu

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Female headdress from the Mbukushu people from the period between 1900 and 1950 from the area between Botswana and Namibia
Female headdress from the Mbukushu people from the period between 1900 and 1950 from the area between Botswana and Namibia

The Mbukushu or HaMbukushu are a clan of the Kavango ethnic group with settlement areas in northeastern Namibia , especially in the Kavango-East region , as well as in Botswana , Zambia and Angola .

The Mubukushu speak Mbukushu , a Bantu language. Traditionally, they are headed by a king in Namibia , Erwin Mbambo Munika since 1991 .

The Mbukushu are said to include 20,000 to 44,000 people today. In Botswana there are said to be about 20,000 people (as of 2004), in Namibia (2002) about 6900, in Zambia 5000 and in Angola 4000 Mbukushu.

See also

literature

  • Maria Fisch: The Mbukushu in Angola (1730-2002), A History of Migration, Flight and Royal Rainmaking. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-89645-350-1 .
  • Sebastian Nordhoff, Harald Hammarström et al .: Mbukushu . Glottolog, Leipzig 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mbukushu language. Global Recordings Network. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Mbukushu. Language Museum. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ Mbukushu. PeopleGroups. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Mbukushu. Ethnologue.com. Retrieved June 28, 2016.