The Teke people of the Republic of Congo were forced to cohabitate with the French in the 1800s. They returned to their own way of life after independence in the 1960s. Teke which means ‘to buy’ in the Bateke language indicates the main occupation of the people - merchant traders in maize, millet, and tobacco....

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