Ethnic group from Democratic Republic of Congo & Western Tanzania
Not to be confused with Beembe tribe (Kongo).
Bembe people
Regions with significant populations
DRC
1 500 000 (2005)[1]
Languages
Bembe language, Swahili, Lingala
Religion
Christianity, Islam, Malkia Waubembe
The Bembe people (Babembe in the plural) are an ethnic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Katavi Region of Tanzania. They live mainly in the territory of Fizi in South Kivu. The Bembe are also in the province of Tanganyika in the city of Kalemie. In 1991, the Bembe population of the DRC was estimated to number 252,000 and around 1.5 million in 2005.
They are representative of many ethnic traditions, including pre-Lega, Boyo-Kunda, Hemba and Bemba.
The Bembepeople (Babembe in the plural) are an ethnic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Katavi Region of Tanzania...
Yoruba music Bembe (membranophone), a Trinidadian drum more commonly known as "bemba" Bembé (album), by Milton Cardona Bembepeople, people of central Africa...
lake in the world. Minembwe was predominantly inhabited by the Bembe and Buyu people, but the region boasts a rich ethnocultural diversity within the...
militias in November 2021 has escalated tension between Banyamulenge and Bembepeople. Verbal and physical attacks targeting Babembe and Babuyu have been spreading...
Territory has been marred by persistent ethnic tensions between the Bembepeople and Banyamulenge, which can be traced back to their long-standing dispute...
Kivu, as the Simba insurgents of the region had mostly belonged to the Bembepeople. Accordingly, the memory of the Banyamulenge-Simba fighting became ethnically...
traditional states comprised several number of them before the immigration of bembepeople with significant numbers of chiefdoms or sultanates sometimes under the...
inhabited by the Lega people; Fizi of the Bembepeople, the Babwari people and the Banyindu people; and Uvira, inhabited by the Vira people, Bafuliro and Barundi...
91⁄2 in.); by Mangbetu people; Brooklyn Museum (New York City) Plank mask (emangungu); possibly early 1900s; wood; by Bembepeople; Cleveland Museum of...
drums), Igbin, Gudugudu (Kettledrums in the Dùndún family), Agidigbo and Bèmbé are other drums of importance. The leader of a dundun ensemble is the oniyalu...
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages. The languages...
Bamushi, and Banyamulenge. The area was conventionally inhabited by the Bembepeople, a Bantu ethnic group that inhabits the shores of Lake Tanganyika and...
Wagoma, Bwari, Buyu, Masanze, Bangubangu, WaBembe, Songoora and many others of Congolese origin. Swahili people Tippu Tip Kasongo Nyangwe Sultanate of Zanzibar...
activity. It is practiced by Vira and Fuliiru fishermen, as well as by the Bembepeople who rear a variety of fish, including tilapia, catfish, kapenta (known...
start. The Banyamulenge feared the insurgency was mainly a ploy by the Bembepeople to steal their cows. These fears were realized when the rebels, lacking...
eventually made their way to the Fizi Territory, where they settled among the Bembepeople. In October 1998, during the commencement of the Second Congo War, the...
original on December 20, 2014. Lega Culture (highlighting key areas of Bembe origin). University of California Press. 1973. p. 17. ISBN 0-520-02085-5...
the Bembe. As a result, the Nyindu people have close cultural and historical relationships not only with the Lega, but also with the Shi and the Bembe. These...
Beembe or Bembe may be: BembepeopleBembe language (Ibembe) Beembe tribe (Kongo) Bembe language (Kibembe) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
cabinda.org. Retrieved 2017-07-11. Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization: Bembe to UNPO: "The Peace Process in Cabinda Must and Will Continue"...
inhabited by the Mbuti people, who practiced hunting and food-gathering as an essentially nomadic way of life. Incidentally, the Bembepeople were established...
further exacerbating existing inter-ethnic tensions and conflicts. The Bembe and Buyu were both grouped in the Fizi Territory, which was further subdivided...
occupied by several Bantu ethnicities, including the Lega, Bembe, Shi, Fuliiru, Nyindu, and Vira people. The Kilungutwe River was a strategic site for Kasika...
traditional states comprised several number of them before the immigration of bembepeople with significant numbers of chiefdoms or sultanates sometimes under the...