Tag: Congo

  • A Tale of Two Villages

    A Tale of Two Villages

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    by

    Christopher E. Scott
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    Joseph Bonkile Engobo was 84 years old. He calculated the Belgians arrived in his village almost a century ago. The villagers called him Papa Joseph and part of his job as traditional chief of Lokolama was to know their history. He knew the Belgians arrived in 1922 and forced his great-grandfather to help build a…