Nyanga people
TheNyanga(alsoBanianga,Banyanga,Kinyanga,NiangaorNyangas) are aBantu peoplein theAfrican Great Lakesregion. Today they live predominantly in theKivuregion of theDemocratic Republic of the Congo,near the frontier withRwandaandUganda.[1]They speak theNyanga language,also called Kinyanga, which is one of theBantu languages.There are about 150,000 speakers of Nyanga according to a 1994 census, but most are also fluent inSwahili.Their national epic is thekarisiMwindo.
Notes
[edit]- ^James Stuart Olson, "Nyanga",The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary(Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996), 454.
Further reading
[edit]- Biebuyck, Daniel P.De hond bij de Nyanga: ritueel en sociologie.Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1956.
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