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Luba

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Luba

 or Baluba

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Female Luba ancestral statue of carved wood; in the Musée de l'Homme, Paris.
(credit: Courtesy of the Musee de l'Homme, Paris)
Cluster of some 5.6 million Bantu-speaking peoples who share a common political history surrounding the Luba-Lunda states. They are savanna and forest dwellers who hunt and gather, engage in agriculture, and keep livestock; they also fish intensively in the Congo and its tributaries. They have associations for hunting, magic, and medicine and a well-developed oral tradition that includes epic cycles. Two groups are noted as wood-carvers.



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11) carved by Osei Bonsu in 1935 and covered with visual motifs that recall proverbs, and a Luba royal bow and arrow holder from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which evoked stories of the culture hero who introduced kingship to the Luba.
Intersections: World Arts Local Lives by Roberts, Polly Nooter / African Arts
Submitted by Deborah Kraus, Luba Serge, Michael Goldberg.
Publications by Community Action
Control of human African trypanosomiasis in Luba in Equatorial Guinea: evaluation of three methods.
Trypanosomiasis control, democratic republic of Congo, 1993-2003 by Boelaert, Marleen / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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