Sundi

{{Short description|Ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of Congo}}

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The Sundi (also Sundis, Nsundi, Basundi, Kongo-Sundi, Suundi and Manyanga) are a Central African people established in three countries, in the Republic of Congo – particularly in the Niari department (Kimongo and Londes-Lakayes), in the Bouenza department (Boko-Songho) and in the Pool Department –, in Angola (Cabinda) and in the Democratic Republic of Congo.{{Cite web|title=Sundi|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100542344|access-date=2022-02-12|website=Oxford Reference|language=en}} They are considered to be the largest subgroup of the Kongo people.{{Cite book|last1=Olson|first1=James Stuart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VhuQlawC97sC|title=The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary|last2=Meur|first2=Charles|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27918-8|pages=537|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=McDonald|first=Gordon C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fU6He5WxSh4C|title=Area Handbook for People's Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville).|date=1971|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=57|language=en}} Xavier Bienvenu KITSIMBOU, La démocratie et les réalités ethniques au Congo, UNIVERSITÉ NANCY II, 2006, p.24Hortense Gisèle Yela, LES COMITES DE GESTION ET DE DEVELOPPEMENT COMMUNAUTAIRE UN OUTIL DE GOUVERNANCE ET DE DEVELOPPEMENT TERRITORIAL : CAS DU DISTRICT DE LOUINGUI, UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP, 2013, p.26-27{{cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4bee720.html |title=Congo : situation actuelle et traitement des membres de l'ethnie larie par le gouvernement en place (2002) |work=Direction des recherches, Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié, Canada |language=fr |access-date=2023-06-08}} Early in the nineteenth century there were wars between Sundi and Teke when Teke moved southwest into the Niari valley.{{Cite web|title=Congo-Brazzaville - People|url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/africa/cg-people-groups.htm|access-date=2022-02-12|website=www.globalsecurity.org}}