Bembe may refer to:

Music

Bembé (rhythm) A bell pattern is a rhythmic pattern of striking a hand-held bell or other instrument of the idiophone family, to make it emit a sound at desired intervals. It is often a clave rhythm, ''key pattern'' (also known as a ''guide pattern'', ''phrasing ...

, in African and Cuban music * Bembe (West African drumming), in

Yoruba music Yoruba music is the pattern/style of music practiced by the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo, and Benin. It is perhaps best known for its extremely advanced drumming tradition and techniques, especially using the gongon hourglass shape tension dru ...

* Bembe (membranophone), or bemba, a Trinidadian drum * ''Bembé'' (album), by Milton Cardona, 1986

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Bembe people The Bembe people (Babembe in the plural) are an ethnic group based in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Kigoma Region of Tanzania. They live mainly in the territory of Fizi in South Kivu. The Bembe are also in the province ...

, an ethnic group in central Africa *

António Bento Bembe António Bento Bembe is the Secretary-General of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), a general of Angolan Army, a minister without portfolio in the Angolan government between 2007–2009. He is the Secretary of State o ...

(fl. from 2004), Angolan general and politician * Bembe language (Ibembe), spoken by the Bembe people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania * Bembe language (Kibembe), spoken in the Republic of the Congo *

Beembe tribe (Kongo) The Beembe (also Bembe, Babembe, Babeembe) are a Bantu languages, Bantu people living in southern Republic of the Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, precisely in Bouenza Department, Bouenza and in the cities of Brazzaville, Dolisie, and Pointe-Noire. It is ...

, of the Republic of the Congo * Bembe, Angola, a town and municipality in Uíge Province in Angola

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