- the
following names: "bad
Bobangi", "Sabir of
Bobangi", "deformed and
mixed Bobangi", "
Bobangi of treaties", "patois of
Bobangi and Kilolo", and "the new...
-
Bobangi can
refer to:
Bobangi language, a
precursor of the
Lingala language Bobangui, a
village in the
Central African Republic This
disambiguation page...
- The
Bangi language, or
Bobangi, is a
relative and main
lexical source of
Lingala spoken in
central Africa.
Dialects of the
language are
spoken on both...
- Mondele, or mundelé, (pl. mindele) is a
Bobangi term
meaning "white" (white man, not the color, mpembe) European-style person,
person with
light skin...
-
group is that of the
Banunu people, who
originate from
upriver and
whose Bobangi language was the
former trade language for the area. Lingala, one of the...
- Bang****ou
Kingdom along the
Ubangi River. In the mid 19th century, the
Bobangi people became major slave traders and sold
their captives to the Americas...
-
Ubangi River (French: Oubangui); the
Ubangi itself was
named from the
Bobangi word for the "rapids"
located beside the settlement,
which marked the end...
- dramatically, and the
regional slave trade grew,
dominated by
Bobangi traders. The
Bobangi also
purchased many
slaves with
profits from
selling ivory, whom...
- to Loango, the
mouth of the
river and
south of the
Kongo Kingdom. The
Bobangis,
sometimes called Bangala (people of the river),
occupied the
major part...
- a
variant of the word
Nzambi or Nyambi,
which is used by the
people of
Bobangi in
reference to a
supreme deity. The name
Njambe is also used by the Kuba...
