Bonga (name)

	Bonga (name) Bonga is a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Bonga (musician) (born 1942), Angolan singer-songwriter * George Bonga (1802–1880), Indian fur trader * Isaac Bonga (born 1999), German basketball player * Jan Bonga (born 1964), Swiss windsurfer * Paul Bonga Bonga (born 1933), Congolese footballer * Pierre Bonga (1770s–1831), trapper and interpreter * Tarsis Bonga Tarsis Bonga (born 10 January 1997) is a German professional footballer who plays as a right winger for club Hallescher FC. Club career Early career On 24 January 2023, Bonga signed with Eintracht Braunschweig for the remainder of the 2022–23 ... (born 1997), German-Congolese footballer * Bonga Makaka (born 2000), South African cricketer * Bonga Perkins (born 1972), American surfer {{Given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bonga (musician) José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho (born 5 September 1942 in Kipiri, Angola), better known as Bonga, is a folk and semba singer and songwriter from Angola.Davis, Clive (2009)Bonga ''Bairro'', ''The Sunday Times'', 18 January 2009 Biography Youth and athletic career José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho was born in the province of Bengo, and left Angola when he was 23 years old to become a track and field athlete, becoming the Portuguese record holder for the 400 metres (Angola was at the time one of Portugal's five African colonies). He had already begun his singing career at the age of 15. Musical career Colonial period Carvalho abandoned athletics in 1972, concentrating solely on his music, and immediately became famous in his native Angola, as well as in Portugal. After the Carnation Revolution in April 1974, he would become a hit both with immigrants from the ex-Portuguese colonies, and Portuguese of both African and European descent. He has released over 30 albums, singing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	George Bonga George Bonga (August 20, 1802 – 1880) was a fur trader, entrepreneur and interpreter for the U.S. government, who was of Ojibwe and Black descent, fluent in French, Ojibwemowin and English. At the age of eighteen, he served as an interpreter for Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan Territory during a treaty council with the Ojibwe at Fond du Lac near present-day Duluth, Minnesota. Bonga worked for the American Fur Company from 1820 to 1839, progressing to the role of clerk or sub-trader working under head trader William Alexander Aitken. In 1837, he was involved in the first criminal trial held in Minnesota when he tracked down and successfully apprehended Che-ga-wa-skung, an Ojibwe man who was wanted for murder, transporting him back to Fort Snelling. In the 1850s, Bonga worked for the United States Indian agent at Leech Lake, serving as interpreter and superintendent of the government farm. Later, he traded in dry goods and opened a lodge on Leech Lake with his wife. In 1867, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Isaac Bonga Isaac Evolue Etue Bofenda Bonga (born November 8, 1999) is a German professional basketball player who is playing for FC Bayern München of the German Basketball Bundesliga and the EuroLeague. Standing , he began his professional career with Skyliners Frankfurt of the Basketball Bundesliga. Born in Neuwied, Bonga represents the senior German national team in international competitions. He was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers (second round, 39th overall) and immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2018 NBA draft. Early life Bonga was born in Neuwied, Germany to parents originally from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. His father emigrated to Germany in the early 1990s with plans to move to Canada, but he instead stayed in the country and began living in Frankfurt and then Koblenz. Bonga's older brother Tarsis plays association football for VfL Bochum, while his younger brother Joshua also plays basketball. At age seven, Bonga began playing streetball in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jan Bonga Jan Bonga (born 23 July 1964) is a Swiss windsurfer. He competed in the Division II event at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... References External links * * 1964 births Living people Swiss windsurfers Swiss male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Switzerland Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Division II Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Swiss sportspeople {{Switzerland-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Paul Bonga Bonga Paul Bonga Bonga (born 25 April 1933) is a Congolese footballer of the 1950s and 1960s. A midfielder, he rose to prominence during his time in Belgium at Standard Liège and was perhaps best remembered as the first African footballer to be selected in the World Soccer Magazine world XI, when he was chosen in 1962. Career Bonga was born in Ebonda. He started playing football barefoot, in 1948 for the Golden Lion and then for Sporting, St. Anne College team. In 1950, he joined Union and put on his first boots. He was transferred in 1952 to Daring Club Motema Pembe. In 1956, while on a European tour, he was noticed by sports journalists, particularly for his match against the Standard Liège. In late 1957 he was invited to Standard, and became Belgian champion in the seasons of 1958–1960. In 1960, Bonga Bonga finished as runner-up to Paul Van Himst in voting for the Soulier d'Or, the Belgian Golden Shoe. It was the only occasion in the first twenty years of the award that a no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pierre Bonga Pierre Chimakadewiiash Bonga (Ojibwe: ''Makadewiiyas'', "Black-skinned"; recorded as "Mukdaweos") (c. 1770 – 1831, Minnesota) was a black trapper and interpreter for the North West Company, based in Canada near Mackinac Island. He later worked for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, primarily along the Red River of the North and near Lake Superior in present-day Wisconsin and Minnesota. Like many fur trappers, he married an Ojibwe woman, as he was operating in the territory of her people. The mixed-race children of Pierre and his wife Ogibwayquay were raised in the Ojibwe culture. Two of their sons followed their father into the fur trade, and established reputations as interpreters and guides. Early life and family background Born in the 1770s, Pierre was among the children of Jean and Marie-Jeanne Bonga, an enslaved couple. In 1781, they were captured as prisoners in the Illinois Country during the American Revolutionary War, and sold to Indian traders at Mackinac Island. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tarsis Bonga Tarsis Bonga (born 10 January 1997) is a German professional footballer who plays as a right winger for club Hallescher FC. Club career Early career On 24 January 2023, Bonga signed with Eintracht Braunschweig for the remainder of the 2022–23 season. 1860 Munich He started the 2023–24 season with an appearance against 1. FC Stockheim in the Bavarian Cup. Bonga scored four goals in a Bavarian Cup match against DJK Hain. He was released by the club on 5 January 2024. Hallescher FC On 5 January 2024, Bonga signed with Hallescher FC. Personal life Born in Germany, Bonga is of Congolese descent. Bonga's younger brother, Isaac, is a professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ... player for the Bayern Munich. Career statistics References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bonga Makaka This is a partial list of cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket matches for the Western Province cricket team in domestic South African men's cricket competitions. A B C D E F G H I * Alan Igglesden * Laurence Impey * Gerald Innes J K L M N O * Sid O'Linn * Riaan Oosthuizen Douglas Ovenstone Tuppy Owen-Smith P R S T V W X * Lundi Xhongo Y Simphiwe Yiba Z Monde Zondeki References {{Lists of South African cricketers * Cricket in South Africa Border Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political bo ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]