The Nyanga (also Banianga, Banyanga, Kinyanga, Nianga or Nyangas) are a Bantu people of the African Great Lakes region. They live predominantly in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the frontiers with Rwanda and Uganda.James Stuart Olson, "Nyanga", The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996), 454.
Language The Nyanga speak the Nyanga language (also known as Kinyanga), a member of the Bantu family.
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Further reading Biebuyck, Daniel P. De hond bij de Nyanga: ritueel en sociologie. Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1956.