Malimba may refer to:
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Limba people (Cameroon)
The Mulimba (or Malimba) are an ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. They belong to the Sawa peoples, those of the Cameroonian coast.
History and geography
Mulimba and Duala oral history traces their ancestry back to a man named Mbedi. ...
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Malimba language
Limba (Malimba, Mulimba) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is very closely related to Duala. Speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility with Tanga (Batanga), which they call "Old Malimba".M. Lamberty - A rapid appraisal survey of M ...
of Cameroon
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Malimba, Gabon
*In East and Southeast Africa, a musical instrument analogous to either a
marimba
The marimba ( ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the mari ...
or a
mbira
Mbira ( ; ) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal Tine (structural), tines, played by holding the instrument ...
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