The Tumbwe people are a Bantu ethnic group living mostly in Tanganyika District of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Tumbwe are a small group of about 100,000 people whose homeland is on the west shore of Lake Tanganyika.
[3] The Tumbwe, who live between the road leading south from Kalemie and the lake, may be the oldest settled group in the area.
[4] Traditionally the Tumbwe made their living by small-scale farming and by fishing on the lake.
Today, growing numbers of Tumbwes work for wages in urban areas.