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The Songye people, sometimes written Songe, are a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo. They speak the Songe language. They inhabit a vast territory between the Sankuru/Lulibash river in the west and the Lualaba River in the east. Many Songye villages can be found in present-day East Kasai province, parts of Katanga and Kivu Province.[1] The people of Songye are divided into thirty-four conglomerate societies; each society is led by a single chief with a Judiciary Council of elders and nobles (bilolo). Smaller kingdoms east of the Lomami River refer to themselves as Songye, other kingdoms in the west, refer to themselves as Kalebwe, Eki, Ilande, Bala, Chofwe, Sanga and Tempa. As a society, the people of Songye are mainly known as a farming community; they do, however, take part in hunting and trading with other neighboring communities.
^Petridis, Constantine. (2008). Art and power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa ; [to accompany "Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa", an exhibition ... to be held at the Menil Collection, Houston, 26 September 2008-4 January 2009 ; the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1 March - 7 June 2009, and the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 27 June - 11 October 2009]. Mercatorfonds. ISBN 978-90-6153-830-1. OCLC 551870212.
The Songyepeople, sometimes written Songe, are a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo. They speak the Songe language...
The Zappo Zaps were a group of Songyepeople from the eastern Kasaï region in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They acted as allies...
Congo, consisting of bilingual populations who today can be identified as "Songye" or "Luba and "Kusu". According to Emil Torday a "tetela speaking" group...
Songe, also known as Songye, Kisonge, Lusonge, Yembe, and Northeast Luba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Songyepeople in the Democratic Republic of...
minkisi in Kongo tradition. Among the peoples of the Congo Basin, especially the Bakongo and the Songyepeople of Kasai, exceptional human powers are...
general. Some African cultures, such as the Songyepeople of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Tiv people of Nigeria, have a strong and broad conception...
whose home bordered by the larger Luba state and the related Songyepeople and Chokwe people, with whom they share a very similar culture, history, and...
earth deity Ratovantany created the Malagasy people by breathing life into clay dolls. The Songyepeople have a creation myth involving two gods, Mwile...
Luba of Kasai and Shaba, the Kanyok, Songye, Kaonde, Sanga, Bemba and the people of Kazembe. Today, the Hemba people live in the north of Zambia, and their...
warthog fangs. Another well-known example is that of kifwebe masks of the Songyepeople (Congo basin), that mix the stripes of a zebra (or okapi), the teeth...
usually kept and carried by the chiefs of the Songye. The weapon holds power and significance among the people. The axe was used in battle, as a status symbol...
figure (tumba); 19th century; wood; by Sundi people; Rietberg Museum Mask (kifwebe); wood; by Songyepeople; Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren,...
Ngongo Lutete (or Gongo Lutete or Ngongo Leteta) was a Songye leader and chieftain during the late 19th century. As a boy Ngongo Lutete was enslaved by...
Kaumbu. Ilunga Sungu lived with his mother's Ilande subgroup of southern Songyepeople while he was a child. Traditions say Kumwimbe Kaumbu attacked the northern...
Chisolo) is a traditional mancala game played by the Luba, Lulua and Songyepeoples of DR Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is closely related to other East...
exocannibalism include the Lendu and the Songye (especially the Zappo Zaps) in Africa, the Batak and Dayak people in Asia, and the Attacotti in Europe. In...
2021). Deciphering the eleven strange cases of Ming and Qing dynasties. Songye Culture Business Co., Ltd. ISBN 978-986-516-649-6. Li Renkai (1992). Historical...
extend his kingdom by conquering the neighbouring Songye chiefdoms. He met a prince of the Kunda people on behalf of Ilunga Mbidi through its sisters who...
village. According to German ethnologist Leo Frobenius, children captured by Songye slave raiders in the Central African Kasaï region that were too young to...
freed slaves from the eastern Congo. The so-called Zappo Zaps (from the Songye ethnic group) were the most feared. Reportedly cannibals, the Zappo-Zaps...
Venue Opponent Score Result 2009 Fencing Hall, Seoul, South Korea Wang Songye 15–21, 21–15, 21–15 Gold 2009 (SU5) Fencing Hall, Seoul, South Korea Ayako...
Includes Taishi Que Gates, Zhongue Temple Shaoshi Que Gates Qimu Que Gates Songye Temple Pagoda Architectural Complex of Shaolin Temple Kernel Compound Chuzu...
allowing them to kill and eat them. Particularly infamous were groups of Songye fighters "known as Zappo Zaps after the sound of their rifles" and employed...
A History of Chinese Civilization. p. 186. ISBN 9780521497817. Shen, Songying (2016). 闲读中国史. ISBN 9787210081692. Zhou, Weizhou (2006). 汉赵国史. p. 2. ISBN 9787563359943...
Brooklyn Museum. The kifwebe masquerade is a genre shared by the Luba and Songye, indicative of the interaction that has occurred between the two societies...
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