The Adyumba or Adjumba are a Bantu ethnic group in
Gabon. They live mainly near
Lake Azingo and in the Middle
Ogooué River in the west coast of the country. They belong to the
Myènè people and also speak the
Myènè language
Myene is a cluster of closely related Bantu varieties spoken in Gabon by about 46,000 people. It is perhaps the most divergent of the Narrow Bantu languages,Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
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. Their neighbors include the
Mpongwe people (who they were historically considered a clan of
) and the
Nkomi people.
Today most live by fishing, food crops and small businesses.
References
Bibliography
* David E. Gardinier, ''Historical dictionary of Gabon'', Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, Londres, 1994, 466 p.
* Karl David Patterson, ''The northern Gabon coast to 1875'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975, 167 p.
* Albert Aléwina Chavihot et Jean-Avéno Davin, ''Les Adyumba du Gabon : de la petite valise de Nènè'', Éditions Raponda Walker, Libreville, 2000, 196 p.
*
Elikia M'Bokolo, ''Noirs et blancs en Afrique équatoriale : les sociétés côtières et la pénétration française, vers 1820-1874'', Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1981, 302 p.
Bantu peoples
Ethnic groups in Gabon
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