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Luba pendants
Luba pendants (Left) Pendant, hippopotamus tooth, Luba culture, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century; in the Brooklyn Museum, New York. 8.3 × 3.2 × 3.8 cm. (Right) Pendant, hippopotamus tooth, Luba culture, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century; in the Brooklyn Museum, New York. 9.5 × 2.5 × 3.2 cm.

Luba

people
Also known as: Baluba
Written by
Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of African Religion (2009) formed the basis...
Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha
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History

Luba, a Bantu-speaking cluster of peoples who inhabit a wide area extending throughout much of south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo. They numbered about 5,594,000 in the late 20th century. The name Luba applies to a variety of peoples who, though of different origins, speak closely related languages, exhibit many common cultural traits, and share a common political history with past members of the Luba empire, which flourished from approximately the late 15th through the...

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