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The Mbole people are an ethnic group of about 100,000 people as of 1971 living in the Orientale Province, southwest of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Ethnologue )〕 ==Origins== The Mbole language belongs to the Mongo group of Bantu languages. The Mbole culture is close to that of the Mongo people and related to those of the Yela and Pere peoples.〔 They live in the equatorial forest on both sides of the Lomami River.〔 They once lived to the north of the Congo River. They crossed this river upstream from the point where the Lomami joins the Congo, near present day Basoko, and then moved south to their present location. They split into five smaller groups in the 18th century due to pressure from the Bombesa people.〔 During the colonial era of the Belgian Congo, the Mbole were active in attacking the colonial factories in Lokilo. They called the Belgians ''atama-atama'', or slave traders, and made no distinction between the Belgians and the earlier Arab slave traders. The Lomami Company forced the Mbole to collect large amounts of rubber. They vividly described their view of the effect of this work with the phrase ''wando wo limolo'', meaning "tax-caused loss of weight". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mbole people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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