The Aluku's are located in the beautiful Lawa area in the south of Suriname. Discover their unique history, culture and identity. The Aluku speak their own variant of Sranan Tongo, a Creole language that has developed from various languages and influences.

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.

2015年1月17日 · Boni was the leader of a group of several small maroon tribes, which we know today as the Aluku. The Aluku now live for the most part in St. Laurent, Guyane (Border town east of Suriname),along the Marowijne river, (Maroni in French).

Aluku are an African American Maroon people whose territory lies on the borderlands of French Guiana and Suriname, in a part of the Amazon basin that extends to the north- eastern coast of South America and belongs culturally as much to the Caribbean as to

2025年1月27日 · Aluku, also known as Boni, is a fascinating ethnic group in the Maroni River region of French Guiana and Suriname. These resilient people are descendants of African slaves who escaped Dutch plantations in the 18th century. They established their own communities deep in the rainforest, preserving rich cultural traditions and unique languages.

2004年1月1日 · Reconstructs the life story and activities of the Aluku Maroon Captain Apatu in French Guiana. Author describes how Apatu aligned with and aided French explorer Jules Cerveaux in exploring the Amazon region in the late 1870s, and maintained contacts with other French colonial figures.

Like the other five tribes of Guiana Maroons - the Ndjuka, Paramaka, Saramaka, Matawai, and Kwinti - the Aluku are descended from African slaves who centuries ago escaped from Surinamese plantations and fled into the unsettled forests of …

1989年1月1日 · Systematic outline of present information on Aluku, an important headman in the second war between the Boni-Maroons and the Dutch. The author uses the 1961 account of the Moravian brother Axwijk...

Bibly shows how the Aluku maintain a distinct identity in each community in relation to other ethnic groups, primarily other maroons and Creoles. Settlement patterns, demographics, Aluku cultural history, and the ideology and bureaucracy of a modern nation state have all influenced the way the Aluku construct their identity and maintain their ...

Maroon Wars in the same year 1796, added other names including of Aluku. The descendants of the Maroons who fought the Dutch centuries ago, nowadays prefer to be called 'Aluku', as they …