Ngoma may refer to:

Places

Ngoma, Namibia Ngoma is a settlement in the Caprivi Region of Namibia. It is one of the border posts between Namibia and Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country i ...

, a settlement on the border between Namibia and Botswana * Ngoma, Rulindo, Northern Province, Rwanda * Ngoma, Uganda, a municipality in Nakaseke District * Ngoma, Ukerewe, a ward in

Ukerewe District Ukerewe District is one of the seven districts of the Mwanza Region of Tanzania. It is located on Ukerewe Island, Ukara Island and other neighbouring islands within Lake Victoria. The largest settlement and the district's administrative capital is ...

, Tanzania * Ngoma, Zambia, headquarters of Kafue National Park, Zambiq, and its airstrip: ** Ngoma Airport *

Ngoma District Ngoma is a district (''akarere'') in Eastern Province, Rwanda. Its capital is Kibungo. Sectors Ngoma district is divided into 14 sectors (''imirenge''): Gashanda, Jarama, Karembo, Kazo, Kibungo, Mugesera, Murama, Mutenderi, Remera, Rukira, Ruk ...

, Rwanda district in East Province, centred on Kibungo

Other things by the same name

* Ngoma (surname), a Congolese and Zambian surname *

Ngoma music Ngoma ''(also ng'oma or ing'oma)'' is a Bantu term with many connotations that encompasses music, dance, and instruments. In Tanzania ngoma also refers to events, both significant life-changing events such as the first menstruation or the birt ...

about Ngoma music of Tanzania and the Great Lakes * ''Ngoma'' (leafhopper), a leafhopper genus in the tribe

Erythroneurini Erythroneurini is a leafhopper tribe in the subfamily Typhlocybinae, with over 200 genus, genera. Genera * ''Aaka'' Dworakowska, 1972 * ''Accacidia'' Dworakowska, 1971 * ''Ahmedra'' Dworakowska & Viraktamath, 1979 * ''Aidola'' Melichar, 1914 ...

Ngoma (record label) Ngoma was one of the first record labels intended to provide local African music to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The name Ngoma came from the Kikongo word for drum.Stewart, p. 26 The label was created in 1948 by the Greek ...

, an African local record company based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Ngoma drums Ngoma (also called engoma or ng'oma or ingoma) are musical instruments used by certain Bantu populations of Africa. ''Ngoma'' is derived from the Kongo word for "drum". Different Bantu-inhabited regions have their own traditions of percussion, wi ...

, used by certain Bantu populations of Africa * ''Ngoma'', an alternate term for the

yuka (music) Yuka is a secular Afro-Cuban musical tradition which involves drumming, singing and dancing. It was developed in western Cuba by Kongo slaves during colonial times. Yuka predates other Afro-Cuban genres of dance music like rumba and has survived in ...

family of drums used in the music of Cuba {{disambiguation, geo