Culture and Customs of the Congo

(Hardback)

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The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, continues to struggle with socioeconomic and political development. Culture and Customs of the Congo provides the full context of traditional culture and modern practices against a backdrop of a turbulent history. The volume opens up a land and peoples little known in the United States. Written expressly to meet the needs of students and the general audience, the work will inform about the geography, economy, political history, and history from the slave trade to dictatorship; ancestral religions and inroads of western faiths; ancestral literary heritage and communication; art, architecture, and housing; diet and dress; marriage, family, and women; lifestyles and life events, and traditional and modern music and dance.

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[m]ust-have for school, public, and even undergraduate academic library shelves....From sorcery to Kimbanguists; from counting rhymes to animal stories and legends; and from long pants to short pants, Mukenge's knowledge of the Congolese way of life is astonishing.-Against the Grain
Librarians will want to purchase, for the high school collection and for the public library collection, countries for which your students or patrons need or request.-Blanche Woolls & David Loertscher (GaleGroup.com)
"must-have for school, public, and even undergraduate academic library shelves....From sorcery to Kimbanguists; from counting rhymes to animal stories and legends; and from long pants to short pants, Mukenge's knowledge of the Congolese way of life is astonishing."-Against the Grain
"Librarians will want to purchase, for the high school collection and for the public library collection, countries for which your students or patrons need or request."-Blanche Woolls & David Loertscher (GaleGroup.com)
"[m]ust-have for school, public, and even undergraduate academic library shelves....From sorcery to Kimbanguists; from counting rhymes to animal stories and legends; and from long pants to short pants, Mukenge's knowledge of the Congolese way of life is astonishing."-Against the Grain

Author Bio

TSHILEMALEMA MUKENGE is a Professor in the Department of African Studies at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published a major study on religion and family of the Luba of the Congo and continues research and writing on African topics.