Wakinga
The Wakinga or Kinga are a Bantu ethnic group in southern Tanzania . Historically, they live in the Livingstone Mountains north of Lake Malawi . In the literature, the Lwembe cult of the ancestor Lwembe, who was revered as a divine king, is described above all . In 2003 the Wakinga numbered 140,000 people. Around 1920 the number was estimated at 20,000 people.
literature
- Karl Weule: German Colonial Lexicon. Volume III, p. 660
- Johannes Triebel: Faith in God and hero cult in Africa. Investigations into the Lwembek cult of the Wakinga in southern Tanzania. (Paperback edition of the habilitation thesis 1993), Erlanger Verlag F.Mission; Edition: 1 (May 1998)
Web links
- German Colonial Lexicon (1920)
- Thilo C. Schadeberg: The family taboos of the Kinga. Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 1969, pp. 34–41