Nkoya people

Indigenous Bantu group in Zambia

The Nkoya (also Shinkoya) people are a Bantu people native to Zambia, living mostly in the Western and Southern provinces and the Mankoya area. As of 2006, they were estimated to number 146,000 people. Besides Nkoya proper, Nkoya dialects include Ba Mbowela (Mbwela, Mbwera, Shimbwera), Ba Lushange, Ba Lukolwe, Mashasha.

References

  • SIL Ethnologue (2009), nka

External links

  • Kazanga Cultural Association (youtube.com)
  • J.M. Shimunika, W.M.J. van Binsbergen, Likota lya bankoya, Leiden, African Studies Centre, 1988
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