People / group
Balanta
The Balanta are a West African people living mainly in Guinea-Bissau, where they form the largest ethnic group, and in the Casamance region of Senegal. Skilled rice farmers who built polders in coastal mangrove swamps, they traditionally lived without chiefs or kings in village-based societies. Many Balanta fought for the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau's war of independence of 1963–1974.
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