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Mpongwe people information


Mpongwe
Regions with significant populations
Gabon60,000[1]
Languages
Mpongwe, French
Related ethnic groups
Myènè, Orungu

The Mpongwe are an ethnic group in Gabon, notable as the earliest known dwellers around the estuary where Libreville is now located.

  1. ^ Eric Young, "Mpongwe," in Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 1 (Oxford University Press, 2010), 195.

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Mpongwe people

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The Mpongwe are an ethnic group in Gabon, notable as the earliest known dwellers around the estuary where Libreville is now located. The Mpongwe language...

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Mpongwe

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Mpongwe may refer to: the Mpongwe people, an ethnic group in Gabon and their Mpongwe language Mpongwe, Copperbelt, seat of the Mpongwe District in Zambia...

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Libreville

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census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inhabited by the Mpongwe people since before the French acquired the land in 1839. It was later an American...

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Myene language

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in with the Tsogo languages (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (Pongoué), Galwa (Galloa), and Nkomi. Myene at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...

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The Horse Lurja

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African folktale collected by missionary Robert Hamill Nassau from the Mpongwe people with the title Leopard of the Fine Skin, in a town named Ra-Mborakinda...

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Mpongwe District

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Mpongwe District is a district of Zambia, located in Copperbelt Province. The capital lies at Mpongwe. As of the 2010 Zambian Census, the district had...

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Adyumba people

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belong to the Myènè people and also speak the Myènè language of the Bantu languages. Their neighbors include the Mpongwe people (who they were historically...

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Rose Christiane Raponda

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was born on 30 June 1963 in Franceville. Raponda is a member of the Mpongwe people. Raponda received a degree in economics and public finance from the...

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List of hospitals in Zambia

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Hill Top Hospital 1, Ndola District Mpongwe Mission Hospital, Mpongwe District St.Theresa Mission Hospital, Mpongwe District Mwami Adventist Hospital,...

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Virginie Ambougou

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aristocrat of the Mpongwe people while her mother Marie-Anne Rapontchombo was a princess of the Assiga clan, a subgroup of the Mpongwe; the two were from...

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Louis Bigmann

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of the Mpongwe people, he was born and lived in Baraka, Gabon. Bigmann attended the Ecole Montfort in Libreville, Gabon's capital. Noted Mpongwe critic...

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John Leighton Wilson

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among the Mpongwe people. Schools were quickly established in various towns and villages around the Gabon estuary. An alphabet for the Mpongwe language...

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Kingdom of Orungu

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this period of migration, the Orungu drove another Myènè speaking people, the Mpongwe, toward the Gabon Estuary in an effort to dominate trade with Europeans...

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Vili people

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in Senegal , were permanently installed in the Komo estuary among the Mpongwé villages. This incident marked the birth of Libreville, the political capital...

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Copperbelt Province

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Kitwe District, Luanshya District, Lufwanyama District, Masaiti District, Mpongwe District, Mufulira District and Ndola District. All the district headquarters...

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Lake Kashiba

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Lake Kashiba is situated southwest of Luanshya in Zambia, close to Mpongwe and St Anthony's Mission. Lake Kashiba is best known for the several small...

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Demonology

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across all cultures are considered malevolent. In Central Africa, the Mpongwe believe in local spirits, just as the Inuit do; but they are regarded as...

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Masaiti District

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people. It is divided into two constituencies, namely Masaiti constituency and Kafulafuta constituency. It neighbours Lufwanyama District and Mpongwe...

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Lufwanyama District

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the west of Copperbelt Province. On a number of maps it is mixed up with Mpongwe District and Masaiti District. At one time these three districts were known...

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Chronology of Gabon

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the Mpongwè. 1609: shipwreck of the Mauritius, a ship of the Dutch East India Company, off Cape Lopez. 1698: Dutch sailors destroy several Mpongwé villages...

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List of mines in Zambia

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Copperbelt. The Projects include: Luanshya West Project Chililabombwe Project Mpongwe Project Located in Mumbwa District, Central Province. In April 2024, Xtract...

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Zambeef Products

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with the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) to partially fund its Mpongwe Farm expansion of US$ 100.0 million that the company announced in June...

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Districts of Zambia

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Kitwe District Luanshya District Lufwanyama District Masaiti District Mpongwe District Mufulira District Ndola District Eastern Province is composed...

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Adolphus Clemens Good

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posted to Baraka in the French Congo. He began to preach there in the local Mpongwe language just ten months later. When the Baraka mission was closed he moved...

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Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker

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ornament collection, the adorned girdle worn by Mpongwe women. He translated the Bible into Mpongwe language and donated it to ASL. The Pitt Rivers Museum...

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Luanshya

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connects east to Kafulafuta and another road connects south to Masaiti and Mpongwe). The Zambia Railways service to Luanshya was freight only, namely to service...

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Okuyi

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has two chief ethnic groups that exercise the Okuyi rite including the Mpongwe and Galwa from Lambaréné, Gabon. The man in the custome is usually the...

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Kapiri Mposhi District

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240,638 people. The district borders with Copperbelt Province and with the districts of Chibombo, Chisamba, Kabwe, Luano, Masaiti, Mkushi, Mpongwe and Ngabwe...

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