Aluku
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The Aluku are a Bushinengue ethnic group living mainly on the riverbank in Maripasoula in southwest French Guiana. The group are sometimes called Boni, referring to the 18th-century leader, Bokilifu Boni.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Aluku
- Ethnic group.image
- Édouard Riou - Le Grand-man Adam, roi des Bonis.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Granman Adam (1862 or 63)
- Ethnic group.total_year
- 2018
- Ethnic group.total_source
- estimate
- Ethnic group.total
- 11,600
- Ethnic group.region1
- Tribal French Guiana(Maripasoula & Papaichton)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 6,600
- Ethnic group.region2
- Urban French Guiana(mainly Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 3,200
- Ethnic group.region3
- Internationally
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 1,800
- Ethnic group.rels
- Winti
- Ethnic group.langs
- Aluku, French, Sranan tongo, Nengue tongo,
- Ethnic group.related
- Ndyuka
- Official post.body
- the Aluku people
- Official post.incumbent
- Joachim-Joseph Adochini
- Official post.incumbentsince
- 1992
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- History
- Boni Wars
- Stateless people
- French period
- Settlements
- Economy and agriculture
- Religion
- Language
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
The Aluku are a Bushinengue ethnic group living mainly on the riverbank in Maripasoula in southwest French Guiana. The group are sometimes called Boni, referring to the 18th-century leader, Bokilifu Boni.
== History == The Aluku are an ethnic group in French Guiana whose people are descended from African slaves who escaped in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries from the Dutch plantations in what is now known as Suriname. Intermarrying with Native Americans, toward the end of the eighteenth century, they initially settled east of the Cottica River in what is nowadays the Marowijne District in Suriname. They were initially called Cottica-Maroons.
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