Bakutu / Kutu

Please do not confuse with Kutu of Tanzania! The Kutu in Tanzania are a matrilineal ethnic and linguistic group based in the Morogoro Region of central Tanzania. The Bakutu people is a subgropup of Mongo people. Mongo tribes are any of several peoples living in the African equatorial forest, south of the main Congo River bend and north of the Kasai and Sankuru rivers in Democratic republic of Congo.

They include such ethnic groups as:

• Bakutu
• Bokote
• Bolia
• Bongandu
• Boyela
• Ekonda
• Iyaelima
• Konda
• Mbole
• Mpama
• Ndengese
• Ntomba
• Nkutu
• Sengele
• Songomeno
• Tetela-Kusu
• and more...

 

Sources:

• Wikipedia.org