Cuepe people are the smallest tribal group in Angola. With just 250 individuals, the tribe almost disappeared in the 1960s.
They are reputed medicine men and this activity gives them the necessary income to survive in the Curoca Desert region. Notes of the first European explorers (16th Century) describe a cave-dwelling San speaking people living on the coast. They could be talking about the Cuepe, who decided to move inland when Europeans started settling in Bay of Namibe.
Cuepe people call themselves Kwadi.
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