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The Chopi are a Bantu ethnic group of Mozambique.They have lived primarily in the Zavala region of southern Mozambique, in the Inhambane Province.They traditionally lived a life of subsistence agriculture, traditionally living a rural existence, although many were displaced or killed in the civil war that followed Mozambique's liberation from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975.
Chopi may refer to: Chopi people, an ethnic group of Mozambique; Chopi language, a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of Mozambique; Chopi blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi), a bird of family Icteridae; A spice made from Zanthoxylum piperitum, an aromatic plant in the family Rutaceae
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Other groups include Makonde, Yao, Swahili, Tonga, Chopi, and Nguni (including Zulu). Bantu people comprise 97.8% of the population, with the rest made up of Portuguese ancestry, Euro-Africans (mestiço people of mixed Bantu and Portuguese ancestry), and Indians. [14] Roughly 45,000 people of Indian descent reside in Mozambique. [108]
Chopi, (also spelled Copi, Tschopi, and Txopi), is a Bantu language spoken along the southern coast of Mozambique. Maho (2009) lists the possibly extinct Lenge dialect as a distinct language. [ 2 ]
The Maluleke tribe is one of the first of the Beja Tonga tribes which emerged at around 500AD and formed part of the first Chopi and Tsonga Valenge groups in Mozambique and South Africa. The Maluleke tribe, together with their near-relatives, finally settled at the Limpopo river and parts of South Africa led by their tribal leader King ...
The Copi people however, remained rebellious and independent throughout the lifetime of the Gaza kingdom and were never properly defeated, [13] and when the ruler of Gaza (Nghunghunyana) invaded their territory near the Limpopo River and attempted to subjugate them in 1888, a war ensued between the Chopi people and the Gaza forces that ...
The indigenous Chopi people became particularly active in this art and are the documented source concerning the early times of this form of music and dance, the timbila which has been registered in the UNESCO heritage archives as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. [2]