Amba people

The Amba people, also known as Bwamba or the Bamba, are an indigenous Bantu ethnic group primarily residing in Uganda’s Bundibugyo District, south of Lake Albert, near the Rwenzori Mountains, and across the border in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. On the Congolese side, they are located in the Watalinga and Bawisa subcounties of Beni, South Kivu. They number 42,559 on the Uganda side in the 2014 census and 4,500 on the Congolese side according to a 1991 SIL International estimate, Ethnologue estimates their total population as 40,100. Agriculturalists, the Baamba traditionally cultivate Plantain (cooking), millet, maize, sweet potatoes, peanuts, rice, coffee, cotton, and cassava, while raising goats and sheep. The Baamba practice Christianity.