Benga may refer to:
Ethnonym
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Benga people
The Benga people are an African ethnic group, members of the Bantu peoples, who are indigenous to Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Their indigenous language is Benga. They are referred to as Ndowe or ''Playeros'' (Beach People), one of several peo ...
, an indigenous ethnic group of Equatorial Guinea
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Benga language
Benga is a Bantu language spoken by the Benga people of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It has a dialectal variation called ''Bapuku''. Benga speakers inhabit a small coastal portion of Río Muni
Río Muni (called ''Mbini'' in Fang language, ...
, spoke by the Benga people
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Benga music
Benga is a genre of Kenyan popular music. It evolved between the late 1940s and late 1960s, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi. In the 1940s, the African Broadcasting Service in Nairobi aired a steady stream of soukous, South African kwela ...
, a genre of music originating in Kenya
Places
Romania
* ''Benga'', the old name of
Movileni, Olt
Movileni is a commune in Olt County, Muntenia, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Bacea and Movileni.
The commune is situated in the Wallachian Plain, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Dorofei. It is located in the central par ...
, a commune in Romania
Gabon
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Benga, Gabon, a province of
Nyanga Province
Nyanga is the southernmost of Gabon's nine provinces. The provincial capital is Tchibanga, which had a total of 31294 inhabitants in 2013 (more than the half of the province population). Nyanga is the least populated province of the nine and th ...
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Benga, Mozambique, a town in
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...
People
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Benga (surname) Benga is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alexandru Benga (born 1989), Romanian footballer
* Gheorghe Benga (born 1944), Romanian physician and molecular biologist
*Ota Benga
Ota Benga ( – March 20, 1916) was a Mbuti ...
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Benga (musician)
Adegbenga Otomayomi Adejumo (born 1 September 1986), known as Benga, is a British musician from Croydon, known for being a pioneer of dubstep record production. He has been featured on a variety of compilations including Mary Anne Hobbs's '' Wa ...
(born 1986), English dubstep producer
Other uses
* Benga tree, a common name for ''
Pterocarpus marsupium
''Pterocarpus marsupium'', also known as Malabar kino or Indian kino, is a medium-to-large, deciduous tree that can grow up to tall. It is native to India (where it occurs in parts of the Western Ghats in the Karnataka-Kerala region and in the ...
''
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Beng language
Beng or Ben is a Mande language of Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the c ...
of Côte d'Ivoire
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