Tonga (folk)

Begrepet **tonga** eller **batonga** blir brukt om flere etniske grupper som lever i det nordlige Malawi, sørlige Zambia, nordvestlige Zimbabwe rundt Binga, vestlige Mosambik og sørlige Tanzania.

## Litteratur
*  Minako Akari, « Outside development interventions : people's daily actions among the Plateau Tonga of Zambia », in *African study monographs* (Kyoto), 22 (4) 2001.
*  Elizabeth Colson, « Life among the cattle-owning plateau Tonga : the material culture of a Northern Rhodesia native tribe », in *Occasional papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum*, réédité University of Zambia par Manchester University Press, 1974.
*  William Joseph Dewey, « Tonga », in *Bibliographic surveys of African peoples*, vol. 2. Bloomington, Ind. : Department of Fine Arts, Indiana University, 1981
*  Mac Dixon-Fyle, « Reflections on economic and social change among the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia, c. 1890-1935 », in *International journal of African historical studies* (New York), 16 (3) 1983
*  Ladislav Holý, *Strategies and norms in a changing matrilineal society : descent, succession, and inheritance among the Toka of Zambia*, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1986, 237 p. 
*  Peta A. Jones, « Tradition and change : the visual arts and material culture of Zimbabwe's Tonga », in William Joseph Dewey, *Legacies of stone: Zimbabwe past and present*, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, 1997, vol. 1
*  Ulrich Luig, *Conversion as a social process : a history of missionary Christianity among the Valley Tonga, Zambia*, Lit, Hambourg, 1997, 308 p. 
*  Lucy Philip Mair, « Matrilineal descent : the Plateau Tonga », in *African societies*, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974.
*  Dan O'Brien, « Chiefs of rain, chiefs of ruling : a reinterpretation of pre-colonial Tonga (Zambia) social and political structure », in *Africa* (London), 53 (4), 1983
*  Clement Abiaziem Okafor, « The Tonga tradition of chante-fable : its conteur and clientele », in *Nsukka studies in African literature* (Nsukka)
*  Clement Abiaziem Okafor, *The banished child : a study in Tonga oral literature*, Folklore Society, Londres, 1983, 172 p. 
*  Neil Price et Neil Thomas, « Continuity and change in Gwembe Tonga family and their relevance to demography's nucleation thesis », i *Africa* (London). 69 (4) 1999
*  Santosh C. Saha, *History of the Tonga chiefs and their people in the Monze district of Zambia*, P. Lang, New York, 1994, 125 p.
*  David John Simon, James R. Pletcher et Brian V. Siegel, *Historical dictionary of Zambia*, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth, 2008, 612 p. (3. utg.) 
*  Michael Tremmel, *The people of the great river : the Tonga hoped the water would follow them*, Mambo Press, Gweru (Zimbabwe) ; Silveira House, Harare (Zimbabwe), 1994, 76 p. 
*  J. Van Velsen, *Local government and tribal politics among the lakeside Tonga*, University of Manchester, Manchester, 1957 (Thèse)
*  J. Van Velsen, *The politics of kinship : a study in social manipulation among the lakeside Tonga of Malawi*, University of Zambia, by Manchester University Press, 1971 (1. utg. 1964)  338 p. 
*  Kenneth Powers Vickery, *Black and White in southern Zambia : the Tonga Plateau economy and British imperialism, 1890-1939*, Greenwood Press, New York, 1986, 248 p. 
*  A. K. H. Weinrich, *The Tonga people on the southern shore of Lake Kariba*, Mambo Press, Gwelo (Rhodesia), 1977, 109 p.