The Great Lakes Twa, also known as Batwa (singular Mutwa), Abatwa or Ge-Sera, are a Bantu speaking group native to the African Great Lakes region on the border of Central and East Africa. As an indigenous pygmy people, the Twa are generally assumed to be the oldest surviving population of the Great Lakes region. Current populations of Great Lakes Twa people live in the states of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2000 they numbered approximately 80,000 people, making them a significant minority group in these countries.[2] The largest population of Twa is located in Burundi estimated in 2008 at 78,071 people.[3]
Apart from anthropological literature, the term "Twa" generally refers to the Twa of the Great Lakes region. There are a number of other Twa populations in the Congo forest, as well as southern Twa populations living in swamps and deserts where there has never been forest, but these are little known in the West.[citation needed]
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The GreatLakesTwa, also known as Batwa (singular Mutwa), Abatwa or Ge-Sera, are a Bantu speaking group native to the African GreatLakes region on the...
populations in the swamp forest around Lake Tumba in the west (about 14,000 Twa, more than the GreatLakesTwa in all countries), in the forest–savanna...
form one of the principal ethnic groups alongside the Tutsi and the GreatLakesTwa. The Hutu is the largest of the three main population divisions in...
various Twa populations all speak Bantu languages. The Nsua of Uganda speak Bantu.[which?] Population: 1,000 The GreatLakesTwa of the GreatLakes (Rwanda...
generated in the country. Great blue turaco Mountain buzzard The black-and-white-casqued hornbill Geography portal GreatLakesTwaTwa "Sustainable management...
only characteristic of the Mbenga and Mbuti. The Gyele/Kola, GreatLakesTwa and Southern Twa have very different musical styles. Liquindi is water drumming...
scattered Batwa: the GreatLakesTwa of the GreatLakes, speakers of the Bantu Rundi and Kiga languages. the "Pygmoid" Southern Twa, not always included...
protected areas, are created. Many conservation refugees (such as the GreatLakesTwa) were already marginalized before a nature preserve was established...
pronunciation: [ɑ.βɑ.tuː.t͡si]), are an ethnic group of the African GreatLakes region. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest...
Twa Corbies" first performed. Child (I, 253) quotes a letter from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Walter Scott (August 8, 1802): "The song of 'The Twa Corbies'...
superiority of Hutu, often in the context of being superior to Tutsi and Twa, and that therefore they are entitled to dominate and murder these two groups...
TWA Flight 800 conspiracy theories are alternative explanations of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800) in 1996. The NTSB found that...
people's lives. The forests are also the home of approximately 100 GreatLakesTwa people, an indigenous community who still largely live as hunter-gatherers...
Hutus Tutsi List of Tutsis GreatLakesTwa Aka people Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon) Ota Benga Efé people Pygmy Pygmy music Twa peoples Bambuti mythology...
2018. p. 109. Retrieved October 12, 2018. "TWA North America Destinations" (PDF). Trans World Airlines (twa.com). Archived from the original (PDF) on November...
of the GreatLakes. They also stated that the number of shipwrecks within the GreatLakes can be attributed to the high traffic over the lakes. Many of...
The GreatLakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million Rwandans to neighboring...
of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African GreatLakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located...
Airlines, the predecessor of Trans World Airlines (TWA), Hughes began to quietly purchase a majority share of TWA stock (78% of stock, to be exact); he took a...
earliest inhabitants of the region are generally thought to have been the Twa, a group of Pygmy forest hunters and gatherers, whose descendants still live...
2009-2010), Great Plains (2001-2004), US Airways (formerly USAir) (2007-2015), ExpressJet (2007-2008), Allegiant (2016-2022), and Volaris (2018-2019). TWA was...
stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African GreatLakes region down to Southern Africa. Scholars from the Royal Museum of Central...
Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, by producer Richard Hall. A Great Blue Productions film. The Land of Skulls (2021). This documentary on Rwanda...
International Airport (CLE). RegionsAir operated under a code-sharing agreement with TWA and American Airlines to provide flights to communities as AmericanConnection...
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