• The Songye people, sometimes written Songe, are a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo. They speak the Songe language....
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  • Songying (Chinese: 宋营镇) is a township-level division of Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. Songying is in the southeast of Shijiazhuang urban...
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  • Songe, also known as Songye, Kisonge, Lusonge, Yembe, and Northeast Luba, is a Bantu language spoken by the Songye people in the Democratic Republic of...
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  • clusters, along with their Guthrie identifications, are: Yazi (L20) Songe (Songye), Binji (L20) Hemba: Hemba (L20), Kebwe (L30), Bangubangu of Kabambare (D20)...
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    The Zappo Zaps were a group of Songye people from the eastern Kasaï region in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They acted as allies...
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    Congo, consisting of bilingual populations who today can be identified as "Songye" or "Luba" and "Kusu". According to Emil Torday a "tetela speaking" group...
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    The Songyue Pagoda (Chinese: 嵩岳寺塔; pinyin: Sōngyuè sìtǎ), constructed in 523 CE, is located at the Songyue Monastery on Mount Song, in Henan province,...
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    A kifwebe or bwadi bwa kifwebe is a mask of the Songye or Luba of the Congo. These masks almost always have streaks (incised or painted) on their surface...
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    connection to dance and speech in general. Some African cultures, such as the Songye people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Tiv people of Nigeria...
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  • Ngongo Lutete (or Gongo Lutete or Ngongo Leteta) was a Songye leader and chieftain during the late 19th century. As a boy Ngongo Lutete was enslaved by...
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    The axe is ceremonial and usually kept and carried by the chiefs of the Songye. The weapon holds power and significance among the people. The axe was used...
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  • Nyakyusa religion Ovambo traditional religion Pedi traditional religion Songye religion Suku religion Swazi traditional religion Tonga religion Tsonga...
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    however the titleholder hid him at Bisonge, near the southern border with the Songye people. Kazadi died accidentally, with Shinta becoming a kitenta. Mwine...
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  • Jacky Pang Starring Jinpa Genden Phuntsok Sonam Wangmo Cinematography Lu Songye Edited by William Chang Music by Lim Giong Point Release date August 2018 (2018-08)...
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    allowing them to kill and eat them. Particularly infamous were groups of Songye fighters "known as Zappo Zaps after the sound of their rifles" and employed...
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  • A History of Chinese Civilization. p. 186. ISBN 9780521497817. Shen, Songying (2016). 闲读中国史. ISBN 9787210081692. Zhou, Weizhou (2006). 汉赵国史. p. 2. ISBN 9787563359943...
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    warthog fangs. Another well-known example is that of kifwebe masks of the Songye people (Congo Basin), that mix the stripes of a zebra (or okapi), the teeth...
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    village. According to German ethnologist Leo Frobenius, children captured by Songye slave raiders in the Central African Kasaï region that were too young to...
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    tradition. Among the peoples of the Congo Basin, especially the Bakongo and the Songye people of Kasai, exceptional human powers are frequently believed to result...
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  • Mwamba was trying to extend his kingdom by conquering the neighbouring Songye chiefdoms. He met a prince of the Kunda people on behalf of Ilunga Mbidi...
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    immediate reaction to his death in the Congo was not as uniform. Tetela, Songye, and Luba-Katanga peoples created folks songs of mourning for him, but these...
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  • : 557–558  Some of those of the southern savanna, such as the Luba-Katanga and Songye, had transitioned from being matrilineal to patrilineal by 1500, while others...
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    after the establishment of a colonial post at the Sankuru River, a young Songye chief asked to borrow the knife of the post commandant, which he then used...
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    Ratovantany created the Malagasy people by breathing life into clay dolls. The Songye people have a creation myth involving two gods, Mwile and Kolombo, creating...
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    freed slaves from the eastern Congo. The so-called Zappo Zaps (from the Songye ethnic group) were the most feared. Reportedly cannibals, the Zappo-Zaps...
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    century; wood; by Sundi people; Rietberg Museum Mask (kifwebe); wood; by Songye people; Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Mbangu mask;...
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  • Lei Wang Starring Jinpa Wang Zheng Kunde Darggye Tenzin Cinematography Lv Songye Edited by Jin Di Music by Ding Ke Release date 2 November 2021 (2021-11-02)...
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    to have practised exocannibalism include the Azande, the Lendu, and the Songye (especially the Zappo Zaps) in Central Africa, the Batak and Dayak people...
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    07.017. ISSN 1879-033X. PMC 3812453. PMID 23962486. Chang, Yi-Wei; Chen, Songye; Tocheva, Elitza I.; Treuner-Lange, Anke; Löbach, Stephanie; Søgaard-Andersen...
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    January 27, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013. "What is NATO?". NATO. Fang, Songying; Johnson, Jesse C.; Leeds, Brett Ashley (2014-10-01). "To Concede or to...
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