fleshofqetesh: Mbundu/Ambundu people of Angola performing traditional dance. The Mbundu also known a
fleshofqetesh: Mbundu/Ambundu people of Angola performing traditional dance. The Mbundu also known as Northern Mbundu or Ambundu are Bantu-speaking people living in Angola’s North-West, North of the river Kwanza. They are distinct from the Southern Mbundu or Ovimbundu people. The Ambundu speak Kimbundu, and mostly also the official language of the country, Portuguese. They are the second biggest ethnic group in the country, with 2.4 million people in the latest count. The Ambundu nowadays live in the region stretching to the East from Angola’s capital city of Luanda. They are predominant in the Bengo and Malanje provinces and in neighbouring parts of the Cuanza Norte and Cuanza Sul provinces. The head of the main Mbundu kingdom was called Ngola, which is the origin of the name of the country Angola. By the late 1960s, the Mbundu living in the cities, such as Luanda and Malanje, had adopted attributes of Portuguese lifestyle . Many had intermarried with Portuguese, which led to the creation of an entirely new class of mestiços. Those who received formal education and fully adopted Portuguese customs became assimilados.The Mbundu were the MPLA’s strongest supporters when the movement first formed in 1956. The MPLA’s president, Agostinho Neto, was the son of a Mbundu Methodist pastor and a graduate of a Portuguese medical school. In the 1980s, the Mbundu were predominant in Luanda, Bengo, Cuanza Norte, Malanje, and northern Cuanza Sul provinces. The American actor Chris Tucker discovered that his genealogical DNA test shows that he was of the Ambundu ethnic group on the PBS special African American Lives. Isaiah Washington, another American actor, has a genealogical DNA link to the Ambundu group through his paternal line. Thems my people. -- source link