Momvu

The Momvu (also Momfu , Mamvu ) are an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . They live there mainly in the northeast of the country, in the Ituri district . They speak a Central Sudan language .

Until the 16th or 17th centuries, the Momvu ancestors populated the basins of the Uelle , Mbomou and Aruwimi rivers . Then they migrated in a north-easterly direction to the Ituri area. There they were at the end of the 19th century by different tribes, e. B. Mangbetu or Mangbele pushed back. During the time of the Congo Free State , they opposed Belgian rule several times. They mostly live from agriculture , but were also known blacksmiths in the past .

See also

• Disc knife of the Momvu

literature

• Jan Czekanowski : in Scientific results of the German Central Africa Expedition, 1907-1908 Volume VI, Leipzig 1924, Verlag Klinkhardt & Biermann, pages 400 - 467, digitized at Internet Archive

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Donnelly Fage , Roland Anthony Oliver : The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 2 , Cambridge University Press, 1978, ISBN 0521215927 , page 404 [1]
2. ↑ Bethwell A. Ogot: Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Volume 5 of General history of Africa , James Currey Publishers, 1999, ISBN 0852550952 , page 262 [2]
3. ↑ Czekanowski 1924, p. 466
4. ↑ Maryinez Lyons: The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940 , published by Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0521524520 , page 12 [3]
5. ↑ Tristan Arbousse Bastide : Traditional weapons of Africa (billhooks, sickles and scythes) , British Archaeological Reports, 2010, ISBN 1407306901 , page 30