Kaningi people

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 at 19,901 in 6000. There was about 6,000 Akanigui in Gabon in 1990.

References

↑ 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

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

Ethnic groups in Gabon

Adyumba Baka Bakalai Bakoya Benga Beti-Pahuin Boungome Buissi Duma Kaningi Kele Kota Kwasio Hausa Kwele Lengue Fula Mbama Mpongwe Punu Shira Teke Tsogo

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