Yanzi (ethnic group)

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The Yanzi (also Yan , Yansi ) are an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . They are probably a subgroup of the Bakongo . They speak a Bantu language . The Yanzi are known for their strong drive for independence and opposed Belgian colonial rule . After the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo there were clashes with other Bakongo and the central government. About one million Yanzi live mainly in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in an area south of the Kasai and east of the Kwango .

literature

  • Josef Franz Thiel: Years in the Congo. Missionary and ethnologist with the Bayansi. , Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-87476-381-1 .
  • Josef Franz Thiel: Historical traditions of the Yansi (Zaïre). In: Anthropos , Vol. 68, H. 1/2, pp. 235-291 ( JSTOR 40458179 ).
  • Rémi de Beaucorps: Les Bayansi du Bas-Kwilu. Éditions de l'Aucam, Louvain 1933.
  • Hermann Hochegger: Bibliography Yanzi, bibliography Yaka. In: Cahiers des religions africaines , Jg. 5, 1972, No. 11, pp. 113-119.
  • Paul Malembé: Evolution du système politique Yanzi 1885-1960. EPHE, Paris 1970. (Diss.).
  • Guy de Plaen: Les structures d'autorité des Bayanzi. Éditions universitaires, Paris 1974.
  • L'organization sociale et politique chez les Yansi, Teke et Boma. (Reports et compte-rendu de la IVème Semaine d'études ethno-pastorales, Bandundu, 1968). Center d'études ethnologiques, Bandundu 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yansi on Ethnologue
  2. ↑ James Stuart Olson: The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary , Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1996, ISBN 0-313-27918-7 , p. 602 [1]