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Kaningi people

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The Akanigui (also Kanigui or Bakaniki) are an ethnic group in Gabon. They live in the Haut-Ogooué region, northwest of Franceville.[1] They speak a Bantu language, the Kaningi language, whose number of speakers was estimated as 6,000 in 1990. There were about 6,000 Akanigui in Gabon in 1990.

References

  1. ^ James Stuart Olson (1996). The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8. Retrieved 30 March 2012.

Bibliography

  • (in English) David E. Gardinier, Historical dictionary of Gabon, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J ; Londres, 1981, p. 120