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Ovimbundu Southern Mbundu
Ethnic map of Angola
Ovimbundu area
Total population
12,740,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Angola
Languages
Umbundu, Portuguese
Religion
Christianity, African traditional religions
Related ethnic groups
Ambundu, Ovambo, Herero, and other Bantu peoples
Southern Mbundu
Person
Ocimbundu
People
Ovimbundu
Language
Umbundu
Country
Ovimbunduland
The Ovimbundu, also known as the Southern Mbundu,[2] are a Bantu ethnic group who live on the Bié Plateau of central Angola and in the coastal strip west of these highlands. As the largest ethnic group in Angola, they make up 38 percent of the country's population. Overwhelmingly the Ovimbundu follow Christianity, mainly the Igreja Evangélica Congregacional de Angola (IECA), founded by American missionaries, and the Catholic Church. However, some still retain beliefs and practices from African traditional religions.
^The term Southern Mbundu has also been used for the Ambundu living in the Southern part of the Ambundu region. Oliver and Atmore use it for those in the area where the Ndongo Kingdom developed. See R.Oliver and A. Atmore, Medieval Africa 1250-1800, Cambridge University Press, 2001, page 168
The Ovimbundu, also known as the Southern Mbundu, are a Bantu ethnic group who live on the Bié Plateau of central Angola and in the coastal strip west...
cultural traits, traditions and native languages or dialects include the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, Avambo and other peoples. There are over 100...
for political power upon their envisaged return to Angola. A largely Ovimbundu guerrilla initiative against the Portuguese in central Angola from 1966...
(Mbundu: Ambundu or Akwambundu, singular: Mumbundu (distinct from the Ovimbundu) are a Bantu people who live on a high plateau in present-day Angola just...
widely-spoken autochthonous language of Angola. Its speakers are known as Ovimbundu and are an ethnic group constituting a third of Angola's population. Their...
Luchazi, Mbwela, and Mbundato the East; Holo, Mbundu, Imbangala, Songo, and Ovimbundu to the West; and the Kwanyama to the South. Many of these ethnic groups...
Ethnically, there are three main groups, each speaking a Bantu language: the Ovimbundu who represent 37% of the population, the Ambundu with 25%, and the Bakongo...
times there has been an increase of the number of the Bakongo and the Ovimbundu. There exists a European population, consisting mainly of Portuguese....
The Bailundo revolt was an insurrection launched by the Ovimbundu kingdom of Bailundo and its allies against the Portuguese Empire. The revolt was prompted...
Bantu peoples; specifically the Duala, Kongo, Luba, Mbundu (including the Ovimbundu subgroup) and Teke. "Race and Ethnicity in the United States: 2010 Census...
(Otjiherero), English, Namibian Black German (rare) Religion Christianity, Traditional faith Related ethnic groups Ovambo, Ovimbundu and other Bantu peoples...
(also known as Sambo or Sambos) was one of the traditional independent Ovimbundu kingdoms in Angola. Childs, Gladwyn M. (1964), "The Kingdom of Wambu (Huambo):...
Northern Angola. UNITA, an offshoot of the FNLA, was mainly composed of Ovimbundu people, Angola's largest ethnic group, from the Bié Plateau. Since its...
Lusophone Africa, 1996, pp. 159–60. "Ernesto Lara Filho | Nação Ovimbundu". www.ovimbundu.org. Archived from the original on 2021-09-14. Retrieved 2021-09-14...
US and of following an imperialist policy. Savimbi was a member of the Ovimbundu tribe of Central and Southern Angola, son of an Evangelic pastor, who...
Cubango. UNITA's leadership was drawn heavily from Angola's majority Ovimbundu ethnic group and its policies were originally Maoist, perhaps influenced...
000 Languages Ovambo, English, Portuguese Religion Lutheranism, Traditional religion Related ethnic groups Ovimbundu, Herero and other Bantu peoples...
missionaries. Both his parents were members of the Bieno group of the Ovimbundu, the people who later served as Savimbi's major political base. In his...
on 8 April 1901. During the course of the Bailundo Revolt, a group of Ovimbundu rebels decapitated a native merchant named Antonio de Silveira, roasted...
1948 classification, for his group R10 (the language is Umbundu, the Ovimbundu's language. Kimbundu is found as Ndongo-H21). This has become obsolete:...
their strong support in Benguela Province, most of whose residents were Ovimbundu, the principal supporters of UNITA. Tokoists also were involved in riots...
receives its name from Wambu, one of the 14 old Ovimbundu kingdoms of the central Angolan plateau. The Ovimbundu, an ethnic group that originally arrived from...
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