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In the 18th Century a number of migrations took place from the Lunda Empire as far as the region to the south of Lake Tanganyika. The Bemba people under Chitimukulu migrated from the Lunda Kingdom to Northern Zambia. At the same time, a Lunda chief and warrior called Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the Luapula River.
By the early 18th century the Mangbetu had consisted of a number of small clans who, from southward migrations, had come in contact with a number of northward-migrating Bantu-speaking tribes among whom they lived interspersed. In the late 18th century a group of Mangbetu-speaking elites, mainly from the Mabiti clan, assumed control over other ...
Ugandan Sapeurs (2015) La Sape, an abbreviation based on the phrase Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (French; literally "Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People") and hinting to the French slang word sape which means "clothes" or sapé, which means "dressed up", is a subculture centered on the cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville in the Democratic Republic of the ...
They were among the first to protest slave capture in letters to the King of Portugal in the 1510s and 1520s, [9] [10] then succumbed to the demands for slaves from the Portuguese through the 16th century. The Kongo people were a part of the major slave raiding, capture and export trade of African slaves to the European colonial interests in ...
Since the late 18th century, the word dandy has been rumored to be an abbreviated usage of the 17th-century British jack-a-dandy used to described a conceited man. [9] In British North America , prior to American Revolution (1765–1791), a British version of the song " Yankee Doodle " in its first verse: "Yankee Doodle went to town, / Upon a ...
Blackness was a factor in contact between cultures based upon a biblical interpretations that had been used historically by Europeans to explain the existence of black people. [20] The modern concept of race as innate had begun to emerged in the 15th century with the establishment of a Christian kingdom in Spain , expelling the Jews and Muslims.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century people. It includes people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 18th-century women .
The Mongo people are an ethnic group who live in the equatorial forest of Central Africa. [1] They are the largest ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highly influential in its north region. [2] The Mongo people are a diverse collection of sub-ethnic groups who are referred to as AnaMongo.