Kombe people are an
African ethnic group
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, re ...
, members of the
Bantu group, who are indigenous to
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. It has an area of . Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location both near the Equ ...
. They are native speakers of the
Kombe language.
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, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...
, south of
Bata, and south of
Rio Benito. They are sometimes referred to as
Ndowe or "Playeros" (beach people in
Spanish
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...
), one of several peoples on the Rio Muni coast.
References
Ethnic groups in Equatorial Guinea
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