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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.

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