Bushongo Research Paper

Bushongo Mythology The Bushongo people are also known as the Bakuba. Their neighbors gave this nickname to them, and it means “the people of the lightning”; they should be called the Bashi Bushongo (or the sons of Bushongo). It is a small country composed of tribes from different parts of Africa. It’s leaders come from Sudan and are known as the Bambala, the western people come from the Upper Congo, and the south is a separate branch of the Baluba from around Lake Nyassa. This melting pot of ethnicity gives rise to a related diversity of principles. The Bambala elder is known as the Moaridi, and is the official historian of the kingdom. A summary of the beginning of the world goes as follows: -In the beginning, there was only absolute
Since this happened man has had to suffer illness and death. The Bangongo also have a story similar to the tale of the Bambalan lake of palm wine. It relates how people drink water and how the lake was polluted by a woman that caused the palm trees to grow. The discovery of iron is attributed to ghosts that told a man while he was dreaming. This account, as well as that of the Bambala mythology has not been related as one, continuous story, but as a group of short stories. This mythology could retain real information hidden in fiction; an example of this is the Bushongo legends that show the ancestral home of the people. These stories may also show more than just the origination of the tribes, but also a suggestion to the civilizations where people came into contact. The history of the people tell that a king did travel far to the west, which may have lead to the belief tat Europeans influenced the origin story of the people, as well as their art. There is strong evidence that Europeans did not influence their art because most shapes are found in tribes related to the Bushongo who weren’t influenced by the travelling king. There is also evidence that in other parts of Africa, the creation stories resemble that of Genesis, put into African