Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République démocratique du Congo (RDC) [kɔ̃ɡo]), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered to the northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north by the Central African Republic, to the northeast by South Sudan, to the east by Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, and by Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), to the south and southeast by Zambia, to the southwest by Angola, and to the west by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Cabinda …
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The Congo River and the forests along its banks are a good as dead. The reason: people are going hungry and hunt anything they can catch. Many species have already …
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In his hand is a magic package that helps to divine. The headdress, the beaded strings, and the little raffia balls are unique to this kind of diviner.
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Kimbanguism, named for its founder, Simon Kimbangu, began in the 1920s as a prophetic movement that rallied people against European culture and Christian missions. Kimbangu's following was large enough to …
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Introduced as a slave food from South America, it later bacame a part of the diet of much of the population.
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The boy is wearing the badge of initiation, the woven hoop around his waist. The phases in these initiation rituals of the Kuba-Bushong are: preliminaries; first masks in village; "wall"; …
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The project is being filmed by a Belgian administrator.
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This guardhouse, located at the entrance of the quarters for the royal wives in the palace area, is being built with the use of scaffolding.
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A village surrounded by hills of coffee, banana, cassava, and mango near Lake Goma in the east.
