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The Mongo live in the Congo Basin of central Zaire. The Mongo are primarily agriculturalists cultivating cassava and bananas, but with a very strong secondary reliance on gathering, fishing and hunting.  The basic unit of social organization and economic activity is the patrilocal extended family led by a senior elder. Extended families are aggregated into localized lineages which are further grouped into clans. Clan members live dispersed across several villages, but form a political group under the leadership of elders from the senior lineage.  Seclusion-ending festivals for first time mothers and grieving spouses are the major focus of Mongo organized ceremonials.

Nkundo society

Marriage among the Nkundu

Culture Summary

Colonialism in the Congo basin, 1880-1940

Fatness and culture among the southern Mongo (Zaire)

Hunting of the Boyela, slash-and-burn agriculturalists, in the central Zaire forest

Author	Title	Publication Date
Boelaert, E.	Nkundo society	1940
Hulstaert, Gustave E.	Marriage among the Nkundu	1938
Johnson, Ronald	Culture Summary	2010
Nelson, Samuel Henry	Colonialism in the Congo basin, 1880-1940	1994
Pagezy, Hélène	Fatness and culture among the southern Mongo (Zaire)	1991
Sato, Hiroaki	Hunting of the Boyela, slash-and-burn agriculturalists, in the central Zaire forest	1983

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