Suku

Africahorticulturalists
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The Suku are a Bantu-speaking people living in hamlets and small villages scattered across the rolling savannas of the southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were traditionally organized in a pyramidal political system, with the royal lineage at the apex and, at the bottom, a number of smaller matrilineages averaging some thirty-five members. Subsistence is primarily agricultural, broadly supplemented by gathering, hunting, fishing and domestic animals; local mission and government employment and migratory labor are increasingly important. There is a strong division of labor by gender.

Identifier
Region
  • Africa
Subregion
  • Central Africa
Subsistence Type
  • horticulturalists
Samples
Countries
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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