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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.
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The Bailundu are one of the subgroups of the Mbundu, whose best-known art producers are the Ovimbundu.
African art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston by Ross, Doran H. / African Arts
Conversely, other peoples such as the Ovimbundu, the Lozi, and the Mbunda, whose kinship with the Chokwe has been firmly established by firsthand observation, are not properly discussed in any of the essays, even though their arts are represented in the different catalogue sections.
Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples by Petridis, Constantine / African Arts
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