Xindonga is an ethnological term created as a common label for four small ethnic groups existing in the extreme Southeast of

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

: the Cusso ( Mbukushu), the Dilico (or Dirico), the Sambio and the Maxico. These peoples live in that region, which today is the Cuando Cubango Province, together with other small groups, belonging to the Ovambo, Ganguela and San.José Redinha, ''Etnias e culturas de Angola'', Luanda: Instituto de Investigação Científica de Angola, 1975 The "Xindonga" peoples are living on petty

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops on smallholdings to meet the needs of themselves and their families. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements. Planting decisions occu ...

, keeping small animals, and the occasional hunting and/or fishing.

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