What is "ngoma"

Ngoma is an African family name or surname.

Ngoma may refer to:

• Ngoma, Namibia, a settlement on the border between Namibia and Botswana
• Ngoma, Rulindo, North Province, Rwanda
• Ngoma, Uganda, a municipality in Nakaseke District
• Ngoma, Ukerewe, a ward in Ukerewe District, Tanzania
• Ngoma, Zambia, headquarters of Kafue National Park, and its airstrip:
  • Ngoma Airport
• Ngoma District, Rwanda district of the East Province, centred on Kibungo

• Ngoma (leafhopper), a leafhopper genus in the tribe Erythroneurini
• Ngoma (satellite radio), a satellite radio music channel
• Ngoma drums, common in Central and Southern Africa or the ngoma lungundu
• Ngoma (record label), an African local record company, based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Ngoma, an alternate term for the yuka family of drums used in the music of Cuba

Ngoma was one of the first record labels intended to provide local African music to the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The name Ngoma came from the Kikongo word for drum. The label was created in 1948 by the Greek businessman Nicolas Jéronimidis, and was active until 1968. Its catalog included many known artists at that time including Camille Feruzi, who is said to have popularized rumba during the 1930s, Antoine Wendo Kolosoy, one of the biggest names of all-time in Congolese music, the Angolan Manuel d'Oliveira, Léon Bukasa, Antoine Mundanda, Paul Mwanga and Albert Luampasi, the guitarist who is said to taught François Luambo Makiadi his first guitar chords.