Nalu

The Nalu of Guinea Bissao, they are in the region of Bigini, they are a town close to the Baya whose artistic productions come to be attributed to them, as happens with their Banda masks. They are the most isolated community in the country. It is a flat and swampy country. They are mainly engaged in agriculture because of the country's fertility due to its favorable rainfall. Their main crop is rice, and they also fish, whose fish they dry, as in other areas of Africa, for their own food and for sale. As the Nalu They have been embracing Islam more strongly their masks have been relegated to simple festive or decorative elements persisting the animistic religious transcendence they had in other times, which does not prevent their statuery from being one of the most beautiful and the most sought after. Their language is the nalu, they also speak the suu, mainly the Nalu of Guinea Conakri, which has several thousands of Nalus, reaching 22.000 In fact, almost all these coastal peoples are related. Its origin in these areas seems to date back to the century XIIIAlthough according to historians they arrived in several waves most likely from the Fouta Djalon.