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Ovimbundu

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Ovimbundu

Bantu-speaking people of central Angola. Numbering about 4 million, the Ovimbundu provided the major popular support for Jonas M. Savimbi and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). They were formerly traders; today they farm, hunt, and raise livestock. About half the 22 Ovimbundu chiefdoms were tributary to a larger chiefdom before Portuguese intervention in the 20th century.

Ovimbundu 

(Umbundu), a people inhabiting the plateau region of Angola, from the coast (between the city of Benguela and the Longa River) in the west to the Cuanza River in the east. Total population, approximately 2.1 million (1970, estimate). Their language, Umbundu, belongs to the Bantu language family. Clan and tribal religious cults have survived among the Ovimbundu; some Ovimbundu are Catholics. The chief occupation is hoe farming (millet, sorghum, legumes, corn). Some Ovimbundu work on coffee and sugarcane plantations.
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O conjunto desses problemas acabou por deslocar os apresamentos de cativos para o planalto de Bihe, terra dos Ovimbundu, e o trafico para a cidade de Sao Filipe de Benguela, fundada no seculo XVII.
Os Benguelas de Sao Joao del Rei: trafico atlantico, religiosidade e ... by Brugger, Silvia; de Oliveira, Anderson / Tempo - Revista do Departamento de Historia da UFF
Thousands of Ovimbundu and Bakongo people were killed by government troops, and later UNITA began purging populations thought to be supportive of the MPLA.
MPLA decisive victory: Angola's legislative elections on 5 September ... by Roque, Paula / New African
O Desejo de Kianda (1995) charts the collapse of the national project and the decline of the alliance between the Creoles and the interior in its depiction of the failing marriage of Joao Evangelista, the son of an Ovimbundu father from Huambo and a Kimbundu mother from Luanda, and his wife, a Luanda Creole social climber named Carmina Cara de Cu, who remakes herself as an ardent capitalist and consumer after her beloved MPLA renounces socialism.
'Um James Bond subdesenvolvido': the ideological work of the Angolan ... by Henighan, Stephen / Portuguese Studies
 
 
 
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