Luba

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(lū'bə)

n., pl., Luba, or -bas.

A member of a Bantu people inhabiting southeast Congo (formerly Zaire).
The Bantu language of this people. Also called Tshiluba.

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Female Luba ancestral statue of carved wood; in the Musée de l’Homme, Paris. (credit: Courtesy of the Musée du Quai Branly (formely the Musée de l’Homme), Paris)

Cluster of some 5.6 million Bantu-speaking peoples who share a common political history surrounding the Luba-Lunda states. They are savanna and forest dwellers who hunt and gather, engage in agriculture, and keep livestock; they also fish intensively in the Congo and its tributaries. They have associations for hunting, magic, and medicine and a well-developed oral tradition that includes epic cycles. Two groups are noted as wood-carvers.

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IN BRIEF: n. - A Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo.

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