Ngoma may refer to:

Places

Ngoma, Namibia Ngoma is a settlement in Namibia's Zambezi Region, located 70 kilometres southeast of the region's capital, Katima Mulilo. It falls under the Katima Mulilo Rural Constituency. Serving as a crucial border crossing between Namibia and Botswana, Ngo ...

, a settlement on the border between Namibia and Botswana * Ngoma, Rulindo, Northern Province, Rwanda *

Ngoma, Uganda Ngoma is a small town in Nakaseke District, Central Uganda. It is one of the municipalities within Nakaseke District. Other municipalities in the district include: (a) Butalangu (b) Kapeeka (c) Nakaseke (d) Semuto and (e) Wakyaato. Location N ...

, a municipality in Nakaseke District * Ngoma, Ukerewe, a ward in

Ukerewe District Ukerewe District is one of the seven districts of the Mwanza Region of Tanzania. It is located on Ukerewe Island, Ukara Island and other neighbouring islands within Lake Victoria Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a sur ...

, Tanzania * Ngoma, Zambia, headquarters of Kafue National Park, Zambiq, and its airstrip: ** Ngoma Airport * Ngoma District, Rwanda district in East Province, centred on Kibungo

Other things by the same name

* Ngoma (surname), a Congolese and Zambian surname * Ngoma music about Ngoma music of Tanzania and the Great Lakes * ''Ngoma'' (leafhopper), a leafhopper genus in the tribe Erythroneurini *

Ngoma (record label) Ngoma was one of the first record labels intended to provide local African music to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The name Ngoma came from the Kikongo word for drum.Stewart, p. 26 The label was created in 1948 by the Greek ...

, an African local record company based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Ngoma drums Ngoma (also called engoma or ng'oma or ingoma) are musical instruments used by certain Bantu peoples, Bantu populations of Africa. ''Ngoma'' is derived from the Kongo language, Kongo word for "drum". Different Bantu-inhabited regions have their o ...

, used by certain Bantu populations of Africa * ''Ngoma'', an alternate term for the

yuka (music) Yuka is a secular Afro-Cuban musical tradition which involves drumming, singing and dancing. It was developed in western Cuba by Kongo slaves during colonial times. Yuka predates other Afro-Cuban genres of dance music like rumba and has survived ...

family of drums used in the music of Cuba {{disambiguation, geo