Kim (people)

The Kim are people living mainly in four villages of the area of the Mayo-Kebbi Is with the Chad. They were 15.354 in Chad in 1993 (RGPH).

Ethnonymy

The name Kim is of origin barma. Kim do not have a generic name in their own language, they use a specific name for the name of the inhabitants of each of the four villages.

Origin

Country

  • the country kim and four villages: Kim, Era, Djoumane, Kolobo
  • the communities kim on the river Logone
  • the communities kim in the big cities of Chad

History

Social organization and economy

  • the Eleusine
  • the taro
  • rice
  • the fishing and trade of the fish
  • the pottery

Language

  • the kim

Religion

  • Protestantism in country kim

Contemporary situation

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