angryafricangirlsunited: Central/Middle Africa: Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic,
angryafricangirlsunited: Central/Middle Africa: Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe. There are over 800 ethnic group in Central Africa ans also over 800 languages spoken. The majority o the region is francophone. São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola are the only lusophone countries. Equatorial Guinea is francophone and hispanophone. And Chad is a francophone country as well as an Arabic speaking country. Central African civilizations and kingdoms/empires:Kongo KingdomNdongo/Angola KingdomLunda KingdomLuba KingdomBaguirmi KingdomWadai Empire/SultanateShilluk KingdomKanem-Bornu EmpireSao civilizationKuba Federation Yeke KingdomMatamba KingdomMbunda KingdomThe majority of Central Africans are from Bantu ethnic groups. There are also ethnic groups from Nilo-Saharan, Central Sudanic and Niger-Congo (Ubangian) ethnic groups. The most predominate ethnic groups in Central African are Azande, Gbaya, Kanuri, BaLuba, BaKongo, BaMongo, Banda and Sara. The Pygmy people (Bambenga/Bayaka) in Central Africa live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Angola. There are at least a dozen Pygmy groups, sometimes unrelated to each other, the best known being the Mbenga (Aka and Baka) of the western Congo basin, which speak Bantu and Ubangian languages; the Mbuti (Efe etc.) of the Ituri Rainforest, which speak Bantu and Central Sudanic languages, and the Twa of the Great Lakes, which speak Bantu Rundi and Kiga. They were also the original inhabitants of the Congo region before the Bantu migration/expansion when the Bantu migration/expansion occurred they were displaced. -- source link
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