This article is about the African ethnic group. For the city in Mozambique, see Chokwe, Mozambique. For the language, see Chokwe language.
Chokwe people
Chokwe artwork
Total population
1.3 million[1]
Regions with significant populations
Angola, Congo DR, Zambia
Languages
Chokwe; many also speak French, Portuguese or English
Religion
Christian, Animist
Related ethnic groups
Ambundu, Ovimbundu,
Luba, Lunda, Lwena, Songo
The Chokwe people, known by many other names (including Kioko, Bajokwe, Chibokwe, Kibokwe, Ciokwe, Cokwe or Badjok), are a Bantu ethnic group of Central and Southern Africa. They are found primarily in Angola, southwestern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa to Lualaba), and northwestern parts of Zambia.[1]
There are two distinct seasons that occur in the Chokwe region: a rainy season between October and April, and a dry season for the remainder of the year. This weather had a huge impact on village life; the Chokwe farmed, hunted, fished, and built houses according to the changing of the seasons.[2]: 15
The Chokwe people have many different forms of artwork and many extant examples are kept in museums abroad.
^ abChowke people Archived 2016-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopædia Britannica
^Jordan, Manuel (1998). Chokwe (1st ed.). The Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8239-1990-0.
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of non-Kongo ethnic groups such as the Chokwepeople, which were then exported with the labor of Kongo people. Swedish missionaries entered the area in...
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of the Lundas (Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul). Mongozo was brewed by the Chokwepeople before the arrival of Europeans, and mongozo is now commercially produced...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is mainly practiced by the Chokwe and Luchazi peoples. These ideographs function as mnemonic devices to help remember...
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colonial borders were drawn. The Mbunda and the Chokwe began fighting because it was believed the Chokwe assassinated King Mwene Katavola I Mwechela. His...
with Angolan culture, using the metaphor of traditional masks of the Chokwepeople to expose different dichotomies present in Angolan culture. His novel...
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double caryatid headrest from the Chokwepeople. More recent gifts have been made by Perry E.H. Smith, including a Chokwe chair, and by H. Kelly Rollings...
rivers to exceed their banks, inundating portions of the capital Maputo. At Chókwè, the Limpopo River reached a level of 6 m (20 ft) on January 24, twice its...
11%. Other numerically important groups include the closely interrelated Chokwe and Lunda, the Ganguela and Nyaneka-Khumbi (in both cases classification...
single African culture, the book discusses the sona sand-drawings of the Chokwepeople, in which a single self-crossing curve surrounds and separates a grid...
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town of Chicualacuala. The province, including the towns of Xai-Xai and Chokwe, were greatly affected by the 2000 Mozambique flood. Limpopo National Park...
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