Sentence examples for lower congo from inspiring English sources

In its early years the city received immigrants from western Africa and the various neighbouring countries of Central Africa; since independence, however, most new inhabitants have come from within Congo, especially the nearby regions of Bandundu to the west and Bas-Congo (Lower Congo) to the south and east.

Lingala is one of the four major indigenous lingua francas, called "national languages," in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as a vernacular of urban centres in the western part of the country, except in Bas-Congo (Lower Congo) province and in southern and eastern Bandundu province.

Seated mother-and-child figures are found throughout the lower Congo region.

Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to explore the middle and lower Congo river, in 1877.

Friction drums of the lower Congo area were once exclusively ritual instruments but are now becoming desacralized.

Nationalist sentiment spread through the lower Congo region, and, in time, the nationalist wave washed over the rest of the colony.

Kasavubu then retired to his farm at Boma on the lower Congo River.

A hydroelectric dam was completed in 1972 on the lower Congo River at Inga Falls.

Around the lower Congo River she collected specimens of beetles and freshwater fishes for the British Museum.

The third copper complex, on the lower Congo River, remained an important but localized industry until a later date.

One stretch of the lower Congo River was known locally as "the abattoir", due to its past history of cannibalism and its current reputation for criminal activity.