Kombe people are an
African ethnic group, members of the
Bantu group, who are indigenous to
Equatorial Guinea. They are native speakers of the
Kombe language
The Kombe language, or Ngumbi, is a Coastal Bantu language spoken by the Kombe people of Equatorial Guinea, one of the Ndowe peoples of the coast. It is mutually intelligible with Yasa
Yasa was a bhikkhu during the time of Gautama Buddh ...
.
At the beginning of the twentieth century some of the women intermarried with the
Benga people on the
Isle of Corisco.
From 1964 to 1969 they were located in Punta Mbonda (North of
Bata). They later settled in
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
, south of
Bata, and south of
Rio Benito
The Benito is a river in Equatorial Guinea. It is known locally as the Mbini River, and, at least as it flows in its westerly part through the Monte Alen National Park, as the Uoro River. The river rises in Gabon and crosses into Equatorial Gui ...
. They are sometimes referred to as
Ndowe or "Playeros" (beach people in
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
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), one of several peoples on the Rio Muni coast.
References
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