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:From an outsider's eye, it is easy to divide the races of Ubantu into human and nonhuman. This conflicts strongly with the native viewpoint that our-people are humans and everyone else is a cannibal, an idea that is nearly universal in preliterate cultures. The most widespread peoples are the ten tribes descended from the Waokoka: the Wakoka themselves (not the slight spelling change for the modern people), the Wachomba, the Wamugombe, the [[Ubantu:Contents:Peoples:Walangwa|Walangwa]], the Wakomoga, the Wangumbi, the Watsimba, the Wasakara, the Wadingiswayo, and the Wakayesa. All of these are Bantu peoples with similar languages and roughly similar religious practices, though their cultures vary greatly. | :From an outsider's eye, it is easy to divide the races of Ubantu into human and nonhuman. This conflicts strongly with the native viewpoint that our-people are humans and everyone else is a cannibal, an idea that is nearly universal in preliterate cultures. The most widespread peoples are the ten tribes descended from the Waokoka: the Wakoka themselves (not the slight spelling change for the modern people), the Wachomba, the Wamugombe, the [[Ubantu:Contents:Peoples:Walangwa|Walangwa]], the Wakomoga, the Wangumbi, the Watsimba, the Wasakara, the Wadingiswayo, and the Wakayesa. All of these are Bantu peoples with similar languages and roughly similar religious practices, though their cultures vary greatly. | ||
β | :In addition there are three other groups that seem to be trasported tribes from the same regions in east and southern Africa - the Masai, the Bushmen and the | + | :In addition there are three other groups that seem to be trasported tribes from the same regions in east and southern Africa - the Masai, the Bushmen and the Twafwe Pygmies. All of these have changed and developed in the thousand years of separation. Of the three, the Masai are the most similar their Earthly relations. The Bushmen are a mixture of people from pre-Bantu Southern Africa. There are three distinct Bushmen groups, the Khoinama pastoralists, the Dxekwe peoples in the //Tane Swamp and the Tsan hunter-gatherers in the Xang/a Desert, which they share with the People-who-sit-on-their-hands (aka the !Tshab). The Twafwe are also an amalgam of several groups, particularly the Mbuti, the Twa and the Aka (all Pygmies) who developed in isolation whereas their Earthy counterparts mixed and merged with their Bantu neighbors. |