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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
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 Kongo language , the Bantu language spoken by the Bakongo and Bandundu people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the ...
This is a list of Congolese people.. Niasony. Kevin Andzouana, footballer; Hilaire Babassana; Benoît Bati, politician; Fidèle Dimou; Junior Etou (born 1994), basketball player; Raymond Isaac Follo, politician [1]
The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960. It was a Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1992, under the name People's Republic of the Congo (PRC).
In 1483, south of the Congo river they found the Kongo people and the Kingdom of Kongo, which had a centralized government, a currency called nzimbu, and markets, ready for trading relations. [26] The Portuguese found well developed transport infrastructure inlands from the Kongo people's Atlantic port settlement.
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
Léon Kengo wa Dondo (b. 1935) — former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [112] Ève Bazaiba (b. 1965) — lawyer , Secretary General , and environmentalist . She has been instrumental in promoting environmental conservation and advocating for sustainable development practices in the DRC [ 113 ]
The People's Republic of the Congo had 2,153,685 inhabitants in 1988. There were 15 ethnic groups, although most people were Kongo, Sangha, Mbochi, or Teke. 8,500 Europeans were present as well, mostly of French extraction. French was the official language, but other recognized languages included Kituba and Lingala.