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Famous Welwitchia Mirabilis can be found in Namibe
Kwanhama Tribe
Game reserves are a huge tourist attraction and they
bring in thousands of holiday makers and their dol-
lars every year, so many projects are being run, in
collaboration with regional neighbors and the gov-
ernment, in order to repopulate Angola’s wildlife. If
you get a chance, visit the numerous parks and re-
serves in Angola, you might be lucky enough to see
exclusive fauna and flora.
The great majority of the inhabitants are of Bantu-
Negro stock with some admixture in the Congo
district with the pure negro type. In the south-east
are various tribes of Bushmen. The best-known of
the Bantu-Negro tribes are the Ba-Kongo (Ba-Fiot),
(Mbunda, Ba-Bundo), which takes its name from the
Ngola tribe of Abunda. Another of these tribes, the
Bangala, living on the west bank of the upper Kwan-
go, must not be confounded with the Bangala of the
middle Congo. Considerable strain of Portuguese
boold can be found among the Abunda.
The Ba-Lunda inhabit the Lunda district. Along the
upper Kunene and in other districts of the plateau
are settlements of Boers, the Boer population being
about 2000. In the coast towns the majority of the
white inhabitants are Portuguese.
The Mushi-Kongo and other divisions of the Ba-
Kongo retain curious traces of the Christianity pro-
fessed by them in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries and possibly later. Crucifixes are used as
potent fetish charms or as symbols of power pass-
ing down from chief to chief; whilst every native has
a "Santu" or Christian name and is dubbed dom or
dona. Fetishism is the prevailing religion throughout
the province.
The dwelling-places of the natives are usually small
huts of the simplest construction, used chiefly as
sleeping apartments. The day is spent in an open
space in front of the hut protected from the sun by a
roof of palm or other leaves.
Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) estimated the An-
golan population at 19 million inhabitants in 2010,
which represents a very low population density of 15
inhabitants per km2.
There are over 100 distinct ethnic groups and lan-
guages/dialects in Angola. The demographics of
Angola consist of three main ethnic groups, each
speaking a Bantu language: Ovimbundu 37%,
Kimbundo 25%, and Bakongo 13%. Mixed racial
(European and African) represent about 2% and
Europeans are estimated 1%. Other groups include
Tchokwe (or Lunda), Ganguela, Nhaneca-Humbe,
Ovambo, Herero and Xindunga.
Portuguese make up the largest non-Angolan popu-
lation and is constantly increasing since 2000, due to
Angola’s growing needs for qualified human resourc-
es. Beside the Portuguese, significant numbers oth-
er Europeans and Latin Americans (especially Bra-
zil) can be found. Since 2000, many Chinese have
settled in Angola. Most of them serve as workforce
for large construction enterprises.
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