Kabare Territory is a territory in South Kivu , Democratic Republic of the Congo , on the western side of Lake Kivu .
6-640: Kabare Territory is the home region of the Shi people.It is the capital of Bushi Kingdom, located in the South Kivu Province, Eastern Congo. The King of this Chiefdom is Mwami Kabare Nnabushi. Kabare Territory was the central part of the former Bushi Kingdom between the Mitumba Mountains and Lake Kivu. People of Kabare Territory are Bashi or Shi people, speaking Mashi or Shi language. They are mainly farmers and small business entrepreneurs. On 7 August 2015
12-474: The 2015 South Kivu earthquake , a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, struck 35 km (22 mi) north northeast of Kabare at a depth of 12.0 km (7.5 mi). Kabare Territory is located in the far eastern Congo on the western shores of Lake Kivu . Part of Kahuzi-Biéga National Park is located in Kabare Territory. Kabare Territory borders the country of Rwanda to the east, across Lake Kivu. It borders
18-706: The South-Kivu region. The Mwami Desire Kabare is the King of these people. This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cibasima Kangene et Murhagane Mburunge, « Poterie et boissellerie au Bushi », in Journal of Asian and African studies (Tokyo), 1991, n° 41, 1991, p. 163-166 Paul Masson, Trois siècles chez les Bashi, Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren, 1960, 126 p. (en) Alan P. Merriam, « Song texts of
24-504: The administrative territories of Walungu , Kabare , Kalehe , Mwenga , Idjwi and Uvira surrounding Bukavu , which is its main city. There are about 7-12 million inhabitants in the region speaking the Mashi or Shi language. The Bushi is also a kingdom that is organized into many localities or sub-chiefdoms. The Shi people, also known as Bashi, Banyabungo or Banyindu; are exactly close neighbours of Lega; Fuliiro, Bavira and Bembe people in
30-698: The southern part of South Kivu; the Banyarwanda/Barundi people in the neighboring countries, and are close neighbours of Bahunde and Banyanga people who are located in the North Kivu province. The inhabitants of Bushi are the Shi people ( Shi : Bashi , singular: Mushi ) and their language is the Shi language ( Mashi ), a Central (Zone J) Bantu language . People are mainly farmers in this chiefdom; but there are more and more distinguished businessmen; politicians and other intellectuals from this important ethnic group of
36-595: The territories of Kalehe in the north; Shabunda in the west, Walungu in the south, and Idjwi (an island in the middle of the Lake Kivu) also to the east. Bushi Kingdom Bushi is mainly a traditional region and an African ethnic group in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire); mainly located in the South Kivu province. It lies along the Mitumba Mountains and includes
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