Ngombe (people)
The Ngombe (or Ngɔmbɛ ) are an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . They live there mainly in the northwest, along the Congo . About 200,000 people consider themselves to be ngombe. They speak Ngombe , a Bantu language .
In the 18th century, the Ngombe lived on the Likame River and west of the Mongala River. There they were harassed from the east by the Ngbandi . Because of their strong cohesion and their larger villages, they were able to withstand the Ngbandi better than other ethnic groups in the area. During the 18th century they expanded west and south, reaching the Ubangi and the Congo by 1800 . They took part in the slave trade there . In the late 1880s, after winning battles, they were able to displace the Mongo from areas south of the Congo.
The Ngombe traditionally wore scarifications .
See also
literature
- Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates: Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 1 , Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 0195337700 , page 226 [1]
- Jan Vansina: Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa , Verlag Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1990, ISBN 0299125742 , pages 115-117 [2]
