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The ancient history of the Kongo people has been difficult to ascertain. The region is close to East Africa, considered to be a key to the prehistoric human migrations. This geographical proximity, states Jan Vansina, suggests that the Congo River region, home of the Kongo people, was populated thousands of years ago. [19]
Congolese people may refer to: People from the following countries and regions: Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the Congo River; Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), the former French Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), the former Belgian Congo; Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group in the Congo region
Congolese people (disambiguation) Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo) to Luanda, Angola, primarily defined by speaking of the common language Kikongo
Marien Ngouabi, who had participated in the coup, assumed the presidency on 31 December 1968. One year later, Ngouabi proclaimed the Congo Africa's first "people's republic", the People's Republic of the Congo, and announced the decision of the National Revolutionary Movement to change its name to the Congolese Labour Party (PCT).
Congolese citizens are among the poorest people on Earth. In 2023, 60% of Congolese subsisted on less than $2.15 a day, and food-price inflation had reached 173%. [197] DR Congo consistently has the lowest, or nearly the lowest, nominal GDP per capita in the world.
The earliest inhabitants of the region comprising present-day Congo were the Forest peoples whose Stone Age culture was slowly replaced by Bantu tribes. The main Bantu tribe living in the region were the Kongo, also known as Bakongo, who established mostly unstable kingdoms along the mouth, north and south, of the Congo River.
Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison.. The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass ...
Franco Luambo (c. 1938–1989) — singer, guitarist, composer, and bandleader.He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Congolese rumba and his contributions to the music industry have earned him a revered status both within the Democratic Republic of the Congo and internationally [8]